Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" on July 5, 1852, at a gathering sponsored by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York.
It was written to educate readers about the horrifying injustice and brutality perpetrated against slaves, of which he was a victim.
He criticises the nation's celebration and emphasises the terrible day they had. He believed that by writing, he could inflict scorn on his countrymen.
In addition to attempting to persuade people that slavery was evil, Frederick Douglass attempted to increase acceptance of abolition among Northern whites. Frederick Douglass, circa 1855, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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