Best +2 What The Fourth Of July Mean To Frederick Douglass Up To Date. Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches. During the 1850s Frederick Douglass typically spent about six months of the year travelling extensively giving lectures.
Best +2 The papers and placards say that I am to deliver a 4th of July oration So began Frederick Douglass on the platform of Corinthian Hall in Rochester NY. A Fourth of July Oration. Last year NPR asked some of Frederick Douglass descendants to read excerpts of that speech one that still troubles the conscience of America. New Update
+8 Frederick Douglass was a social reformer author and orator who led the abolitionist movements in Massachusetts and New York after escaping from slavery in Maryland. Terbaik 2021
In 1852 Frederick Douglass called America out on its hypocrisy in his speech What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July In it Douglass stated that a country in the throes of slavery has to close its gaping gap between the ideals of the United States and its dastardly deeds toward people of color. This for the purpose of this celebration is the 4th of July. And as we approach another Fourth of July we thought we would revisit his words. The abolition of slavery was set in motion in New York state on July 5 1799.
