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By Frederick Douglass
What, to the American slave, is your 4th 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.
- Source
- Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester (What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?), 1852 · Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, 1852, p. 20
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1852 Rochester pamphlet, Lee, Mann & Co.)
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From Douglass's oration at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, as printed in the 1852 pamphlet.