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Bradley Skelcher on Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July Speech

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered what came to be known as the “Fourth of July” Speech to the Ladies’ Antislavery Society in Rochester, New York. Refusing to speak the day before, Douglass began by admonishing the crowd with a series of questions. He asked, “Why am I called to speak here today? What [...]

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