+3 How Did Frederick Douglass View The Fourth Of July Update 2021. The following is excerpted from a speech regarding the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by the abolitionist and advocate Frederick Douglass in Rochester NY July. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me.
Top +7 A day that reveals to him more than all other days in the year the gross injustice. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly nor. Douglass called out America for being two-faced. Terbaru 2021
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The papers and placards say that I am to deliver a 4th of July oration So began Frederick Douglass on the platform of Corinthian Hall in Rochester NY. Douglass argued that the Fourth of July in the year 1852 was a joke as slaverys practice was then at its peak but that the holiday as it started and as it should have been could yet live up to. From what point of view does he look at it. Originally the Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester invited Frederick Douglass to speak on the 4th of July 1852 but he chose to keep that day aside for mourning and delivered this righteous speech on 5th of July to add a stark reminder in the minds of people regarding the hypocrisy of Freedom enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.