Author Archives: Nathan M. Richardson, Poet, Author, Frederick Douglass Historian/Interpreter

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass addressed the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. In what is one of his most widely known speeches, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” was a powerful rhetorical demonstration that effectively illustrated the paradox of a nation of enslavers declaring itself to be free. “What, to the American […]