![]() ![]() Today, we'll listen to some of my 2018 interview with Blight, who is a professor of history at Yale. The existence of slavery in this country brands your humanity as base pretense and your Christianity as a lie.ĭAVIES: The documentary, titled "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches," is inspired by historian David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Douglass. Your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless, your shouts of liberty and equality hollow mock. To him, your celebration is a sham, your national greatness swelling vanity. NICOLE BEHARIE: (Reading) What do I or those I represent have to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice embodied in that declaration extended to us? What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer a day that reveals to him more than any other days of the year the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "FREDERICK DOUGLASS: IN FIVE SPEECHES") ![]() Here's actress Nicole Beharie reading from Douglass's 1852 speech, "What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" It features several distinguished actors reading from Douglass' speeches and his autobiographies. This week, HBO premiered a new documentary about 19th-century abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass. ![]()
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