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SCOUT· 43%1h 12m·2026-04-28·HistoryBFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?
Ben Franklin's World
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society and asked one of the most searing questions in American history: "What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?" To answer Douglass's question, we have to go back to the Revolution itself; to the choices Black Americans made in…
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