Frederick Douglass and the Power of the Black Archives

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On February 28, 2026, a collective reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech commonly known as "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" took place at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Following the reading, historian Lacey Wilson, Teen Museum Studies Program Manager of Underground Railroad Education Center, facilitated a conversation which included Underground Railroad Education Center Co-founder Paul Stewart and Charles Clark III, curator of The Black Experience in the Adirondacks exhibition at the Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake.