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Frederick Douglass: What, to the American Slave, is your 4th of July? >Published: 7/4/2021 8:44:19 PM
Editor’s note: Frederick Douglass delivered his speech on July 5, 1852 as part of the sermon at St. Paul’s, Wallingford. Here is an abridged version.
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too. . . It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.
On Saturday, July 3, 28 readers at Exeter Town Hall performed 54 paragraphs of the famous speech What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass, first read in Rochester, New York in 1852.
The message of Douglass s lengthy speech questions the celebration of Independence Day, when slaves in the United States were not free. Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us, Douglass told the crowd at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester on July 5, 1852. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
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Сегодня, 5 июля, 577 день с момента обнаружения коронавируса в Китае и 481 с объявления пандемии Всемирной организацией здравоохранения (ВОЗ). За этот период в России выявили 5 610 941 случаев коронавируса. За прошедшие сутки заболели 25 142 человека это на 703 заболевших больше, чем днем ранее. Таким образом, в стране наблюдается резкий рост числа заразившихся. Всего выздоровели 5 068 901 пациентов.
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В РФ примут жесткие меры по вакцинации, стране грозит локдаун
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Сегодня, 5 июля, 577 день с момента обнаружения коронавируса в Китае и 481 с объявления пандемии Всемирной организацией здравоохранения (ВОЗ). За этот период в России выявили 5 610 941 случаев коронавируса. За прошедшие сутки заболели 25 142 человека это на 703 заболевших больше, чем днем ранее. Таким образом, в стране наблюдается резкий рост числа заразившихся. Всего выздоровели 5 068 901 пациентов.
За время пандемии от коронавируса умерло 137 925 человека. Россия �