Industrial Age · North America · Culture
1852
Douglass's Fourth of July
July 5, 1852
In Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass delivered an address to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society that asked, bluntly, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" His answer - a celebration of freedom he did not possess and a people's hypocrisy he could not forgive - became the greatest speech of the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement.
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Also in 1852 (3 other events on record)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin Published · North America · Culture
- Second Empire Proclaimed · Europe · Politics
- Second Anglo-Burmese War · Southeast Asia · War
Before and after in North America
- Before: 1851: Singer Sewing Machine
- After: May 30, 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act
Before and after in Culture
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.