In-Person Program. Thursday, July 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Please join the Royall House & Slave Quarters for our second annual “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” program on the museum grounds in Medford on Thursday, July 4th.

We invite community members to gather on the lawn in front of the historic Slave Quarters building to read/listen to Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” to honor the long history of Black activism, critique, and abolition. Scholar/activist David Harris will launch the reading, then invite community members to read sections of the speech. A drum circle with Akili Jamal Haynes will close out the program.

After the event, we invite community members to an open house inside the Royall House and the Slave Quarters. Light refreshments will be provided.

How to Participate: This in-person program is free and open to all. The Royall House and Slave Quarters has received a generous grant for this program from Mass Humanities with funding made possible by the Mass Cultural Council.