Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Included in this anthology is abolitionist Frederick Douglass' speech, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" — perhaps one of the best articulations of the African-American struggle to embrace patriotism in a country that has not always fully embrace them as a people.

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