Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.

This year’s Frederick Douglass reading, hosted by the North Shore Juneteenth Association and sponsored by Mass Humanities, ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

“Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” premieres Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. Watch a trailer for it, via YouTube. More stories like this: ...

Douglass had hoped it would turn Auld into a “more kind and humane” man, as he wrote in his first autobiographical narrative. But instead, Auld “found religious sanction and support for his ...