++ THIS EVENT TAKES PLACE AT HISTORIC NORTHAMPTON ++

Reading Frederick Douglass Together brings people together to read aloud Frederick Douglass’s speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Come to listen or come to read a passage.  Copies of Douglass’s speech will be distributed to all in attendance.  The public can take turns reading passages from it in succession.  This event is free and open to the public.

200 chairs will be available.  Feel free to bring your own chair.

The Northampton event is organized in collaboration with State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa. Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene will give the opening and closing remarks.  Power-Greene is chair of the Northampton Reparations Study Commission and professor of history at Clark University.​

During the reading, the grounds are closed to dog walking.  Certified service dogs only, please.

Historic Northampton received a Reading Frederick Douglass Together grant from Mass Humanities with funding made possible from the Mass Cultural Council.