Narrative
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech to the citizens of Rochester, New York. It was the 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence but rather than give a cliché speech on freedom in the US he took the opportunity to remind those listening that a nation celebrating freedom still has millions of people living under slavery. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
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