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Ben Franklin's World — BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?
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BFW 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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