A Different Kind of July 4th Speech

Frederick Douglass was a former enslaved person who became a leading spokesman for the abolition of slavery before the Civil War. In a speech Douglass delivered in 1852, he challenged Americans to think about the inconsistency of being the land of the free while practicing slavery. On the latest Exploring History podcast, Ray Notgrass looks at the life of Frederick Douglass and discusses this eloquent and moving speech.

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