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July The month of July is the seventh month in the calendar year, the number that is known biblically as the number of completion. On July 4th America celebrated its legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. We call it Independence Day. Yet on this same day, July 4, 1852, Fredrick Douglas delivered a scathing attack speech on the hypocrisy of a nation celebrating freedom and independence. His speeches, parades and platitudes while within its borders, re