What to the slave is your Fourth of July?
In his earthshaking Independence Day address in 1852, Frederick Douglass shocked the audience when he said,
“There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”
Ten years later, President Lincoln announced he would issue an Emancipation Proclamation, which he signed Jan. 1, 1863.
Read major excerpts from this speech Here
-- What to the slave is your Fourth of July?
