Reading: Douglass, Frederick: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852) https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
Questions to Address5.1. Why would FD say: “Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking me to speak to-day?” 5.2. Why does FD discuss in great detail the causes of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence? [Might there be parallels between the 1770s and the 1850s?]5.3. What provides FD with Biblical and historical hope that slavery will end? 5.4. What are FD’s views on the U.S. Constitution? Why does FD consider the Constitution to be a document of liberty?