Ep.36 - What, To The Oppressed, Is The Fourth of July?

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass took the stage before a a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s annual Independence Day ceremonies to deliver a speech now known as, “What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?” Sadly, 170 years later, much of his speech still holds up. What is Independence to the oppressed today?