Recap of Springfield Frederick Douglass Event
Published by Aprell May Munford in the Springfield Republican on July 5. SPRINGFIELD – More than three dozen people came out this week in Springfield to reflect on the deeper meaning behind abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ influential address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Springfield was one of several communities in Massachusetts where people […]
Boston Globe: Somerville Museum Hosts Reading of Douglass Speech
“Somerville Museum to Put Community at Center of Live Reading of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Speech,” by Nicole Kagan in the Boston Globe on June 27. In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave his speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” to a crowd of abolitionists in Rochester, N.Y. On Wednesday, a group of Bostonians […]
