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Predict the point Douglass is building to with this explanation of the separation from England. ("What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?")

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1) I believe, that since slaves were promised freedom if they fought for the British and won, then they would be freed, and since they didn't win, that might be a grim reminder of how close they were to freedom.

2) How not everyone would be freed on the Fourth of July.
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