Question

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth 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. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.

—Frederick Douglass

Identify the claim in the passage.
A: The holiday pleases enslaved people.
B: The holiday insults enslaved people.
C: The holiday could be better.

Answer 1

Honestly i think its B because at the end of the passage Fredrick Douglass states “your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.” Plus the whole passage gives of the vibe of blame and insult

Answer 2

B: Because as it states it’s a day that reveals him more than any other day , Which causes him to be a constant victim