What to the slave is your 4th of July?

Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people.

Speech Source: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-