The Path to Sovereignty
This Fourth of July Is Yours, Not Mine”: Sovereignty, Slavery, and the Lie of Independence
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”; — Frederick Douglass, July 5, 1852
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was born enslaved in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped at age 20 and became one of the most formidable voices of moral resistance in the United States.
