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“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass. Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth July?” by Frederick Douglass is not only a brilliant work of …