Talk:What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

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Edition: original
Source: Teaching American History
Contributor(s): User:Quadell, User:Koavf
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HistoryIsAWeapon doesn't list the final two verses of the closing poem, has out of the common way, for me. It is true... instead of out of the common way, for it is true... - but seems to have other, less likely, errors as well so is not likely as reputable. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Portal:Branch Davidians 08:14, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, an OCR-ed version from a printed book seems to suggest that it's "Fourth of July" not "Fourth [of] July", and the alternate sentence structure for "Out of the common way" - if that's any help. Sherurcij Collaboration of the Week: Portal:Branch Davidians 08:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Transcription[edit]

Note that this is now transcribed from a scan of the original pamphlet. Additionally, the original annotations have been moved to What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (annotated)Justin (koavf)TCM 23:58, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Published in newspaper[edit]

In addition to the pamphlet, a version of this speech was published in the Frederick Douglass' Newspaper also in 1852.

Recently, the Library of Congress has digitized scans of 568 issues of Frederick Douglass Newspapers. It includes the issue that published the speech. --Ashawley (talk) 08:49, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ashawley: Great find! Uploading to c: as File:Frederick Douglass' Paper, 1852-07-09, (volume 05, issue 29).pdf now. Thanks! —Justin (koavf)TCM 00:18, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]