Published on
Jul 4, 2025
What to the Immigrant is the 4th of July?
On July 5, 1852, over a decade before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass delivered a keynote address at an Independence Day event. “What, to the American slave, is the Fourth of July?” Douglass asked. “A day that …
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TIME Magazine
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