Published on
Jul 4, 2025
What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, the formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his scathing Independence Day speech about the paradox of patriotism in an America that had passed its second federal Fugitive Slave Act. This notorious 1850 legislation …
Source:
The Marshall Project
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Left-wing
