On July 5th 1852, Frederick Douglass, one of history’s outstanding public speakers, carried out a very compelling speech at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. Within that moment of time where the freedom of Americans was being praised and celebrated, he gathered the nation to clear up ...
I read this in “Frederick Douglass” by Ed Combs. In “Oration” by Frederick Douglass, he gave a speech on slavery. He told the crowd that that the 4th of July was a mockery, as long as people were still held as slaves. Slaves were not allowed to learn how to read or write, ...
In 1852 Frederick Douglass was invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society to give a speech commemorating the Fourth of July. On July 5, the crowds filling Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, did not get what they expected.
What is Stokely Carmichael's Black Power speech about? In Frederick Douglass' ''What to the slave does the fourth of July mean'', Douglass states that "there is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at ...
One of Rochester's most widely recognized contribution to African American history, stems from one of our most notable residents, Frederick Douglass -- abolitionist, orator and publisher.
"Irony, Silence, and Time: Frederick Douglass on the Fifth of July." Quarterly Journal of Speech 89.3 (2003): 216-34.Terrill, R.E. (2003). Irony, silence, and time: Frederick Douglass on the fifth of July. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 89(3), 216-234....
Frederick Douglass Speech- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass was the most famous African-American leader of the 1800s. In 1852, the prominent citizens of Rochester, USA, asked him to speak at their Fourth of July festivities. Here’s what he said. ...
(9)Frederick Douglass, speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (5th July, 1852) What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended...
Douglass agreed and delivered his speech on August 11, 1841. 扎卡里·戴维斯:在演讲中,道格拉斯分享了自己奴隶时代的故事。讲这个话题的时候,他主要在教堂里面向美国黑人去分享。但有一天,一个叫威廉·C·科芬的白人废奴主义者来听他的演讲。道格拉斯的演讲给科芬留下了深刻的印象,他邀请道格拉斯去南特克特,在...
This essay is a textual analysis of Frederick Douglass' 1852 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July oration. Douglass' oration is analyzed in light of his change of opinion on the Constitution as a pro鈥恠lavery document. Situating the speech in the context of Douglass' change of opinion...