← On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
What Frederick Douglass warned us about America
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In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered what many consider the best abolitionist speech of all time. He asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” What makes it such a masterpiece — and what can we take from it today?
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