What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
A work by Frederick Douglass, first published in 1852
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The liberty the founders bequeathed is shared by free Americans, not by the slave, Asking an enslaved man to join in celebrating liberty is inhuman mockery, America is false to its past, its present and its future …
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What korrents draws from it
korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.
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The liberty the founders bequeathed is shared by free Americans, not by the slave (opens korrents.com)1
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Asking an enslaved man to join in celebrating liberty is inhuman mockery (opens korrents.com)1
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America is false to its past, its present and its future (opens korrents.com)1
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Every man knows that slavery would be wrong for himself (opens korrents.com)1
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What is inhuman cannot be divine, so slavery cannot be God's institution (opens korrents.com)1
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Scorching irony, not convincing argument, is what the times need (opens korrents.com)1
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