Fri, Jul 04
|TurnPark Art Space
Reading Frederick Douglass Together
TurnPark Art Space in partnership with the Du Bois Freedom Center, West Stockbridge Historical Society, and Eric Shimelonis, presents a Community Reading of Frederick Douglass’ Landmark 1852 Abolitionist Speech on Friday, July 4, 11 AM in the TurnPark Amphitheater in West Stockbridge.
Time & Location
Jul 04, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
TurnPark Art Space, 2 Moscow Rd, West Stockbridge, MA 01266, USA
About the event
Reading Frederick Douglass Together
In partnership with the Du Bois Freedom Center, the West Stockbridge Historical Society, and American composer and West Stockbridge resident Eric Shimelonis, TurnPark Art Space will present a community reading of Frederick Douglass’s address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” on Friday, July 4 at 11 AM in the TurnPark Amphitheater. This event is free and open to the public, which is invited to participate in the reading.
TurnPark Art Space is one of more than 50 sites across Massachusetts where a reading will take place between June 7 and October 11 under an annual program of Mass Humanities – Reading Frederick Douglass Together.
Originally delivered July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Douglass’s speech reflects on values liberty, citizenship, and freedom from the perspective of the enslaved who lacked those rights. Slavery would not be abolished in America for another 13 years.…