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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. WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? () View the document on the National Constitution Center’s site here. SUMMARY Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved . The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history—the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate . We think of July 4, , as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, wasn’t the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, ). WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? () View the document on the National Constitution Center’s site here. SUMMARY Frederick Douglass was born an enslaved person in Maryland, later escaping into freedom and emerging as one of the leading abolitionist voices in the s. In June , he delivered this. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass, July 5th,
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