Thursday, July 04, 2013

"What does the Fourth of July Mean to the Negro?"

"What does the Fourth of July Mean to the Negro?"

In 1852, abolitionist, speaker and journalist Frederick Douglass delivered the speech, "What does the Fourth of July Mean to the Negro?" The speech speaks to the contraction of the celebration of American Independence that was simultaneous with the enslavement of Africans.

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