"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
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Jul 4, 2024, 7:48 am113 ptsWe begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of…
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