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Christina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe is the author of Ordinary Notes, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects. She is a professor of English literature and Black studies at York University and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2024.
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    What Is Freedom: Christina Sharpe

    On July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass delivered his now famous speech “What To the Slave is the Fourth of July?”  In this the…