Poetry

In a just over a week from now, this will be posted about somewhere - Frederick Douglass' July 5th 1852 speech given during the period before the start of the Civil War, and over a century before that debate between Baldwin and Buckley.

The below was a reading of parts of that speech by James Earl Jones at an event now 20 years ago, that was re-aired on DemocracyNow! back in 2021 -

There are a myriad of places that have the text of it including here - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1852-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july/

Of course Baldwin often wrote/commented about the predecessor generations that included Douglass, and took the baton to keep it moving.