Question

Douglass believes Americans should be ashamed to celebrate the Fourth of July as long s they allow slavery to exist. Which sentence from the speech best supports this statement?Immersive Reader

(20 Points)
"Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty?"
"I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply."
"To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your nation's greatness, swelling vanity."
"Go search where you will. roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the world, travel through South America, search out every abuse."

Answer 1

"To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your nation's greatness, swelling vanity."

Step-by-step explanation:

Frederick Douglas, an escaped slave made a speech now titled "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July" on July 5, 1852, in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York.

Douglas's chastised the American public for her hypocrisy when preaching her values of liberty, citizenship an freedom whereas, such values were not extended to slaves.

He launched a scathing attack on the brutal treatment of slaves, exploitation, high handedness and torture that slaves in America faced.

He believes that slaves owed nothing to American founding. To Frederick Douglas, 4th of July is a day that reveals the injustice and cruelty slaves faced of which he is(was) a constant victim.