Unbeknownst to me, this, from Friday, was my 400th post to JAG's Workshop (where I started writing a bit over a year ago).
Feels right to have it be a Fourth of July link to James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ famous speech.
https://jagsworkshop.com/2025/07/what-to-the-slave-is-your-fourth-of-july/
What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?
In what I intend to make an annual tradition, here’s Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July?” as read by the late James Earl Jones. As I wrote last year, it’s powerful, made more so by Jones’ emotive baritone. Douglass’ speech is alarmingly apropos
