The Speech itself was Intended
Words: 813 Pages: 3 4955On July 5, 1852, the day after the fourth of July, Frederick Douglass was invited to give a speech to the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York, to celebrate the nation's 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Douglass took advantage of the occasion not to celebrate the nation's success, but to remind them of its ceaseless enslavement of millions of people. Frederick Douglass, a former slave speech, what, to the slaves, is the fourth of […]