Episode 24: Frederick Douglass | What to a Slave is the 4th of July? (full speech)
In this powerful episode of the Creating America Podcast, host Will Sarris presents a reading of the full text of Frederick Douglass’s landmark 1852 speech, “What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”
As the United States reflects on the ideals of independence, liberty, and justice—especially in the context of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—this episode confronts a difficult but essential question: what did American freedom mean to those who were still enslaved?
Frederick Douglass, born into slavery and later becoming one of America’s most influential abolitionists…
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