by lindaoppenheim | Jul 4, 2015 | Documents, Speech
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to speak in commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 4, 2014 | Opinion
On July 4, a likely topic for thought is the Frederick Douglass speech on what July 4 meant to the American slave. An oped column in the Wall Street Journal warns against excerpting the more ‘combustible’ parts of the speech.
