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BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?

Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History by Liz Covart

Apr 28, 202675:09Society & Culture

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...

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BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July? is an episode from Ben Franklin's World: A Podcast About Early American History by Liz Covart. On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society and asked one of...

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Published Apr 28, 2026, 75:09 long, audio available.

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