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"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July," by Frederick Douglass;

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Excerpts from "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July," a speech by Frederick Douglass given in Rochester, NY, on July 5, 1852, read by actor Ossie Davis, from the album: "A Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! The Oratory of Frederick Douglass Read by Ossie Davis" (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2009).

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