321 BFW Team Favorite: Whose Fourth of July? (No Ad)
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English - February 01, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 988 ratingsHistory Society & Culture americanrevolution benfranklin history ushistory benjaminfranklin colonialamerica earlyamericanhistory earlyamericanrepublic earlyrepublic education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to an anti-slavery society and he famously asked “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
In this episode, we explore Douglass’ thoughtful question within the context of Early America: What did the Fourth of July mean for African Americans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
To help us investigate this question, we are joined by Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and Christopher Bonner, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
This episode originally posted as Episode 277.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/321
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