Frederick Douglass Monument Torn Down

A statue of Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York was ripped from its base on Sunday, July 5, the anniversary of a historic speech that the abolitionist delivered in the city in 1852. Below is a photo of me with the statue last year:

In his treatise“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, Douglass addressed the crowd at the 19th-century Independence Day gathering: “Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine; You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

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