Question

In his speech, Douglass explains his viewpoint that Americans should not be celebrating Independence Day as long as slaves are not free. Which quotation provides valid support for Douglass's reasoning? “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour." “I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!”

Answer 1

In a speech in commemoration of the Independence Day held at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, N.Y., in 5 July of the year of 1852 Frederick Douglass spoke about the hypocrisy of the Declaration of Independence, when it was signed there was still black people under slavery conditions. The passage of this speech that explains his viewpoint is:

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”