On the recordJuly 5, 1852
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of…”
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Douglass critiques the hypocrisy of celebrating independence while slavery persists.
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