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      • Jul 3, 2020
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    What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?



    Last year, Joel Cook performed Frederick Douglass' powerful 1852 speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" in the historic William Brown House.


    Watch this remarkable speech here:

    Photo of Joel Cook as Frederick Douglass by Dave S. Wilson of Victorian Photography Studio.

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