Opinion
Arguably one of the most important Independence Day speeches ever made
Frederick Douglass’s, “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the
July 4, 2022
