Dover joined several communities across New Hampshire at noon today, Friday, July 1, 2022, for the annual reading of the Frederick Douglass Fourth of July protest speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Douglass, a fiery orator and abolitionist, delivered his speech in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852. The annual reading in New Hampshire, which is organized by the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, was coordinated in Dover by the Dover Public Library, and held at the Library's Lecture Hall.