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Frederick Douglass and the Fifth of July
What to the slave is the Fourth of July? asked Frederick Douglass to a Rochester audience. What indeed?
Frederick Douglass and the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society
The Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society, the group that sponsored Frederick Douglass’s famous July 4 speech, raised money, held lectures, hid fugitives—and remembered to serve refreshments at their monthly meetings.