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Episode 13: Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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Today’s episode gives attention to Fredrick Douglass' speech given in 1852, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
When he was summoned to deliver such a speech in front of a crowd of White Abolitionists on July 5, 1852, three million enslaved Africans were being denied their freedom.
The Founding Fathers’ grievances against King George III were articulated in their understanding in the Age of Reason of the Enlightenment in America. Learned individuals such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams were men who read Isaac Newton, John Locke, or Thomas Reid appealed to the innate capacity for reason of the common man. These men question hierarchies based on gender, race, and class.
They hoped that natural philosophy might provide a way to transcend the differences that arose within America’s exceptionalism. Leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin translated Enlightenment ideals of liberty, rights, and self-government into the underlying premises of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
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