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277 Whose Fourth of July?

Published: June 30, 2020, 5 a.m.

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked \u201cWhat to the Slave is the Fourth of July?\u201d

In this episode, we explore Douglass\u2019 thoughtful question within the context of Early America: What did the Fourth of July mean for African Americans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

To help us investigate this question, we are joined by Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and Christopher Bonner, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.

Show Notes:\xa0https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/277


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