Reading Frederick Douglass Together in Belfast, Northern Ireland

In March 2024, Mass Humanities sent a small cohort of staff, board members, and partners to Northern Ireland to participate in #DouglassWeek, an international symposium dedicated to the life and works of Frederick Douglass.

The group partnered with Redeemer Central, a church in Belfast, to host a reading of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave several speeches to the people of Belfast in the church built at this location in 1804 (twice in December 1845, and once in October 1846). At the time, the church was known as the Independent Meeting House, and part of the Congregational churches.

For more information about the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, visit https://masshumanities.org.