Download or read book Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the 4th of July? written by Rebecca Sjonger and published by Deconstructing Powerful Speech. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: �Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.� The prophetic words of abolitionist, writer, and social reformer Frederick Douglass live on in his speeches and books of autobiography. This speech, delivered on July 5, 1852 was an address to the Rochester Ladies� Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass grew up enslaved and deprived of rights and liberty and argued that the American values of freedom and liberty for some, but not all, was an injustice to all humans.