EP118: A Few Words from Frederick Douglass on the 4th of July

In this episode, I share an excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the slave is the 4th of July” delivered on July 5th, 1852 in Rochester, NY.

In it, Douglass shares his thoughts on the present state of his country, the hypocrisy that surrounds it, and the revolution that needs to take place to address and fix what he seems to be the biggest problem since 1776: slavery. I love the courage he had to deliver this speech in the face of oppression.

As a country, it is important for us to never forget our troubled past in the hopes that we will never repeat it