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“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Frederick Douglass's words take on a new significance in the midst of our current drive towards techno-slavery and global genocide

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Emanuel Pastreich
Jul 05, 2025
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What better way to commemorate Independence Day than to recite Frederick Douglass’s famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” and remind ourselves that freedom, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution applies to a smaller and smaller group of people in the United States and that the term “slave” is increasingly entirely appr…

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