SWAMPSCOTT — For the second year, Swampscott and Nahant were awarded a Mass Humanities grant with funding made possible by Mass Cultural Council to present a community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The Swampscott Historical Commission, Nahant Historical Society, and Swampscott Recreation Department coordinated by S.U.R.E. Diversity will present the free event on July 2, from 4–7 p.m., on Town Hall Lawn in Swampscott.
“We welcome this opportunity to bring our communities together to read and reflect on the wisdom and prescient writing of Frederick Douglass,” S.U.R.E. Chair Keli Khatib stated. “He was a statesman, orator, trusted advisor to President Lincoln, abolitionist, and our neighbor from Lynn!”…