Amherst Community Reading: “What to the Slave is your Fourth of July?”
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Congregational Church of Amherst
11 Church St, Amherst, NH, United States
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and heroic orator for liberty, delivered one of his most famous speeches in which he asked, “What to the slave is your Fourth of July?” In addressing an Independence Day observance in Rochester, New York, his speech was a blistering indictment of an American idealism that ignored […]
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