Frederick Douglass on July 4th: An Oration of militancy

On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester, New York's Corinthian Hall.  He proclaimed a timeless Black critique of democracy in this country.

Text https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html https://loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1852FrederickDouglass.pdf

A reading of his speech Ossie Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69j6UnUz64 James Earl Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0baE_CtU08 US National Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRvQL8-Qokg A Collective reading of what Frederick Douglass wrote https://www.nps.gov/nps-audiovideo/legacy/undergroundrailroad/061EFAAC-D0B0-C898-23ECC68D387D1755/nri-FINALCUT22FrederickDouglassProject_1280x720.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGTsBWhSq1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSbNFMCnBKE

Study guides https://daily.jstor.org/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july-annotated/ https://americainclass.org/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zwJWaMCaFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X81fJsU0wYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Af1vmjYOE