Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave, delivered his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, condemning the celebration as a hypocritical sham.
Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave, delivered his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, condemning the celebration as a hypocritical sham.