Frederick Douglass was still talking about the Fourth of July on the 5th of July.

The day after he presented "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" at the Rochester celebrations, he presented a speech that incorporated much of "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" but expanded on those ideas. Invited to speak by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, he spoke at the city's Corinthian Hall.

It's easy to get these two speeches confused as they're a) very similar and b) were given only a day apart in the same city. To make things even more confusing, this second speech is sometimes called "The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro."

We don't blame Douglass for repeating his ideas, though. It's the kind of thing listeners needed to hear more than once.