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Critical Thinking Breakout · Grades 6–8

The Corinthian Hall Address

Rochester, 1852. A speaker stands before an anti-slavery audience and turns a celebration into a challenge. Read the source clues, then crack all four locks — reading the speech as evidence.

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📜 Mission Brief

Read the source, not the assumption

In 1852 Frederick Douglass delivered “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” at Corinthian Hall. Your job is to read what the source actually says — its claim, its audience, and its purpose — and solve the locks from evidence.

🔍 The Clues

Tap each clue to read it. (You can reopen them anytime.)

🔒 The Locks

Solve each lock using the clues above.

SOURCE ANALYZED ✓

Well reasoned, historian.

You read Douglass’s address as a structured argument and supported every answer with the source. That is real primary-source analysis.