Frederick Douglass On July 5, 1852, the abolitionist, author and escaped slave Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to a gathering in Rochester, N.Y., that has lived on as a powerful and provocative statement on race in America. It was called “The Meaning to the Slave of the Fourth of July.” The Vermont Humanities Council has sponsored a series of events around the state during the days around July 4 where the public reads aloud an abridged version of Douglass’s speech, each participant reading a small segment of the speech. It is called “Reading Frederick Douglass,” and readings remain to be carried out in Quechee, Brownington, Jamaica, Fairfield, Ferrisburgh, Plainfield, Montpelier,...
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