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‘What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?’
Editor’s note: It is a tradition at the Nevada Current that each Fourth of July we publish excerpts from the famous speech delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. Last year this introductory note cited recent laws passed in several states designed to limit discussion of the role of race […]
What to the slave is the Fourth of July?
Editor’s note: Nearly two dozen states (Nevada is not one of them) have passed laws designed to limit discussion of the role of race while teaching U.S. history in public schools and colleges. Often prohibiting “divisive concepts,” the laws are pushed by politicians on the right to combat what they – wrongly, usually – contend […]
What to the slave is the Fourth of July?
Editor’s note: In February 2017, while marking African American History Month, President Donald Trump praised Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.” Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Douglass in Rochester, New […]