“What to the Slave is 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
Text Version posted by: Black Educator “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass on 5 July 1852 Occasion: Meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Rochester Hall, Rochester, N.Y. To illustrate the full shame of slavery, Douglass delivered a speech that took aim at the pieties of the…Read More