loading . . . What, to the American Immigrant, Is Your Fourth of July? By Kavita Das | On July 5, 1852, brilliant orator, fierce abolitionist, and former slave, Frederick Douglass, gave an impassioned speech entitled āThe Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.ā In his spe... https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2025/07/4th-of-july-frederick-douglass-homage.html