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  2. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? - Wikipedia

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    A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Douglass, Frederick (2003). Stauffer, John (ed.). My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I – Life as a Slave, Part II – Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James McCune Smith. New York: Random House. Douglass, Frederick (1994).

  3. Frederick Douglass's 4th of July reading still resonates in ...

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    Douglass' speech has messages still relevant today, said Cedric Arno, political action chair and former president of the NAACP Worcester. Arno began the readings in 2009 and said the event has ...

  4. Emancipation Memorial - Wikipedia

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    After delivering the speech, Frederick Douglass immediately wrote a letter to the editor of the National Republican newspaper in Washington, which was published five days later on April 19, 1876. In his letter, Douglass criticized the statue's design and suggested the park could be improved by more dignified monuments of free Black people.

  5. Category:Speeches by Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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  6. Frederick Douglass descendants deliver his famed speech ... - AOL

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    The roughly 7-minute video was published on Friday, one day before the Independence Day holiday. Frederick Douglass descendants deliver his famed speech: ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ...

  7. Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 14, 1818 [a] – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He became the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

  8. The Speech That Launched Frederick Douglass’s Life as an ...

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    On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...

  9. Four boxes of liberty - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) A version that is close to the modern forms was introduced by Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an influential public figure in the Union States and United Kingdom before the U.S. Civil War, and had a long and distinguished career after the war. In a speech delivered on 15 November 1867, Douglass ...