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Article (markdown — paragraphs, **bold**, *italic*, ## headings, - lists, [links](https://…)) "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" was a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about perceived American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved population of the United States because they lacked those rights. Douglass referred not only to the captivity of slaves, but to the merciless exploitation and the cruelty and torture that slaves were subjected to in the United States.

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