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Community Reading: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

Frederick Douglass. Creative Commons License.

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Free admission. Pre-registration is requested.

In this online (via Zoom) event, community members read an amended version of Frederick Douglass’ influential speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, to the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.

Organizing partners: Princeton Public Library, Nassau Presbyterian Church and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church Joint Mission Committee, Not In Our Town Princeton, Paul Robeson House of Princeton, McCarter Theater, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton.

Morven is proud to serve as a community partner supporting this annual event.

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