Rokeby Museum to host Frederick Douglass reading

News Release — Rokeby MuseumJune 28, 2017
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What to the Negro is the 4th of July?
Come and add your voice!
Sunday, July 2, 3:00 pm
Join us to read Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, originally delivered on July 5, 1852.
Declining to speak on the 4th of July, Douglass instead castigated the United States for decades of slavery and injustice, saying “This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
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