What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 2 original MP3 tracks, 1:05:26 running time and a link to listen.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?, credited to Frederick Douglass, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass. Read in English by Tom Shoesmith. Frederick Douglass was born enslaved, in Maryland. He was taken from his mother in infancy and lived with his maternal grandmother, who was also enslaved. At the age of six he was taken from his grandmother and sent to a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. At the age of eight he was “given” to a woman who sent him to be a servant to a family in Baltimore. In 1838, when he was twenty, he escaped to Delaware and eventually made his way to New York and then to Massachusetts. As a free man, Douglass became one of America’s greatest voices for the ideals which gave birth to the country, in part by repeatedly pointing out that those ideals were not being extended to him. His speech in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1852, is a timeless reminder of the failings, and the promises, of America. - Summary by Tom Shoesmith
Recording facts
- Recording title: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
- Author credits: Frederick Douglass
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 2
- Listed recording duration: 1:05:26
Catalogue topics
- slavery
- speech
- freedom
- civil rights
- abolitionism
- dred scott
- fugitive slave law
- oration
Track guide
- 01 - Section 1 — 24:35
- 02 - Section 2 — 40:51
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