Historic Northampton & State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa

cordially invite you to the 2025 Northampton event

Reading Frederick Douglass Together

The public will take turns reading passages

from Frederick Douglass's 1852 Address

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Saturday, July 5, 2025 at 11 am

Rain date: Sunday, July 6, 2025 at 11 am

On the Grounds of Historic Northampton

Come to listen or come to read a passage.

Introductory and closing remarks by

Dr. Ousmane Power-Greene

Professor of History at Clark University

Chair, Northampton Reparations Study Commission

The program will last about one hour.

200 chairs will be available. Feel free to bring your own chair.

During the reading, the grounds are closed to dog walking.

Certified service dogs only, please.

Reading Frederick Douglass Together is a statewide event now in its 16th year.

The Northampton event is funded by a grant from Mass Humanities

with funding made possible from the Mass Cultural Council.

Find out more at masshumanities.org.

After the reading of the speech, the new exhibit at HN will be open.

Slavery and Freedom

in Northampton, 1654-1783

Composite image: Bill of sale for the purchase of "Boston, of about 19 years of age" by Joseph Parsons, Jr. (1647-1729) of Northampton, 1715, from the archives of Forbes Library

with a graphic silhouette of Boston (Design Division Inc., 2025).

Illuminating Truth:

A Special Presentation on Parsons House

Thursday, July 3 & Saturday, July 5, 2025

8:30 pm to 10 pm

Silhouettes and documents from the exhibit will be projected onto the

1719 Parsons family house at 58 Bridge Street, Northampton, MA in

an outdoor slideshow by Whitney Designworks of Northampton.

www.historicnorthampton.org

Directions to Historic Northampton