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Frederick Douglass | THE MEANING OF THE FOURTH OF JULY FOR THE NEGRO
THE MEANING OF THE FOURTH OF JULY FOR THE NEGROAbridged*Frederick DouglassJuly 5, 1852part 1 part 2 1 Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens:The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th [of] July oration. The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is…
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