Blog # 19

"What to a slave is the 4th of July?" was a speech given by Fredrick Douglas, he addressed the issue of our Declaration of Independence applying to everyone except blacks. Buy why? he asked, they were also citizens were they not? He goes on to say that peace, liberty, and prosperity are shared amongst the whites but the blacks who are below them get no such honor. For while the whites rejoice their victories and spoils the blacks get to mourn in what they cannot share in. If the blacks chimed in to this jubilee of happiness than treason is called down upon them. For slavery is the greatest sin and shame of America. The day of the 4th of July is the cruelest of all in the year for it points out the immoral injustices and irony of slavery itself, making it quite apparent of what the whites have and the blacks do not.