'I must mourn 4th of July': Frederick Douglass' words ring true 171 years on

“What to the slave is the Fourth of July," asked Frederick Douglass in his scathing speech at the US Independence Day function on July 5, 1852. These words of a former slave turned author and orator who spearheaded a popular movement to abolish slavery in the US ring true even 171 years on.

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