Annual Reading Frederick Douglass Together: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
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Reading Frederick Douglass Together
A powerful community event: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”—in multiple languages!
🗓️ July 11, 2026 at 10:30am.
📍 Frederick Douglass Garden, Brockton
This event brings our community together to reflect, honor, and raise our voices in unity. Brockton is proud to be the only city in Massachusetts to present the speech in multiple languages, including Haitian Creole, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Vietnamese, Lithuanian, and more. 🌍
This event is made possible with support from Mass Humanities, and in partnership with the African American Association.
To sign up to read or volunteer on this day, please email us: mailto:fdnabrockton@gmail.com
BCA Recording of Frederick Douglass July 4th Speech Reading 7-12-25
Here are more photos from Janet Trask: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KituqyrpVErQGHh89
Images above courtesy of Marc Osborne. To see his entire collection: https://adobe.ly/467Pkbl
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