Best +6 Frederick Douglass The Meaning Of The Fourth Of July Update 2021. It is the birthday of your National Independence and of your political freedom. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men.
+8 The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of Liberty and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems were inhuman mockery in sacrilegious irony. Douglass criticises the Fourth of July Celebrations because the ideals of the American Revolution freedom equality dignitiy and pursuit of happiness were denied to African Americans. Paling Update
+6 I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly. Update This Years
Douglass captures the irony that the Fourth of July is a celebration of liberty. Douglass captures the irony that the Fourth of July is a celebration of liberty. This to you is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. Frederick Douglass poignantly reflected on the paradox of the nation in his July 5 1852 speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.