Question

Which quotation from “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” most accurately describes Frederick Douglass's viewpoint about celebrating the Fourth of July?

“Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common.”
“Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed.”
“But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind.”
“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”

Answer 1

The answer to this question is the first option. I just took the quiz and that was it

Answer 2

The correct answer is A.

For Douglass, the celebration of the Fourth of July merely shows the great gap between the white and black men.

Douglass epresses that African Americas are indeed, Americans, and should enjoy the rights and benefits that the Constitution promises to alll.

However, in the Fourth of July, the Day of Independence, only white people rejoice, because only them are truly free.