By Kevin Roberts, The Daily Signal | July 20, 2026 On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the most important speeches in American history—and one of the most misunderstood. When “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” is remembered today, it is usually for the righteous anger of its middle section. Douglass was one of the nation’s foremost orators for a reason. His withering indictment of 1850s Americans’…