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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06829 Author/Creator: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 Place Written: Rochester, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 1852/07/05 Pagination: 39 p. : Height: 22.3 cm, Width: 14.1 cm Order a Copy PDF Download(s): Download PDF

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.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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