Frederick Douglass Was Asked To Speak At A July 4 Celebration. It Didn’t Go So Well…

Ten years before the Civil War, the city of Rochester, N.Y., asked Frederick Douglass to speak for its July 4, 1852, celebration. He accepted, but rather than join in the “celebration,” Douglass took it in an unexpected direction. Here, Danny Glover performs a brilliant retelling of that speech.If you recall, Douglass was a freed slave…