“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York.
Here is James Earl Jones reciting the iconic speech in his own iconic voice.
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