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Why might Douglass consider himself an inappropriate choice to deliver a fourth of July speech?

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JULY 3, 2019 11:00 AM EDT

America has been working to fully live up to the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence ever since the document was printed on July 4, 1776.

So while the U.S. tends to go all out celebrating freedom on the Fourth of July, alternate independence commemorations held a day later often draw attention to a different side of that story, with readings of the Frederick Douglass speech best known today as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

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