The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Association invited him to speak at their July Fourth Independence Day Celebration in Rochester, N.Y. He refused to speak on that day and instead gave his speech on the []

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