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- GLC#
- GLC06829
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1852/07/05
- Author/Creator
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Title
- Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
- Place Written
- Rochester, New York
- Pagination
- 39 p. : Height: 22.3 cm, Width: 14.1 cm
- PDF Download(s)
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- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the Negro." Douglass' famous peroration: "Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice [of the Fourth], embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us? .... This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn." McFeely called this "perhaps the greatest anti-slavery oration ever given." Sabin 20716. Blockson 30.
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