Bibliograph

Frederick Douglass, What to the slave is the 4th of July?, Rebecca Sjonger

Type

Label

Frederick Douglass, What to the slave is the 4th of July?, Rebecca Sjonger

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Frederick Douglass

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Sjonger

Series statement

Deconstructing powerful speeches

Sub title

What to the slave is the 4th of July?

Summary

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." The prophetic words of abolitionist, writer, and social reformer Frederick Douglass live on in his speeches and books of autobiography. This speech, delivered on July 5, 1852 was an address to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass grew up enslaved and deprived of rights and liberty and argued that the American values of freedom and liberty for some, but not all, was an injustice to all humans

Target audience

juvenile

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