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Introduction
Abolitionism was the first racially integrated political
movement in American history. Black orators, many of them
fugitive slaves, helped to spread the antislavery message in the
North and the British Isles. At every opportunity, black
abolitionists offered a sharp critique of the nation’s claim to be
a land of liberty.
The greatest oration on American slavery and American
freedom was delivered in Rochester in 1852 by Frederick
Douglass. Speaking just after the annual Independence Day
celebration, Douglass posed the question, “What, to the Slave,
is the Fourth of July?” He answered that July 4th festivities
revealed the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed its belief in
liberty yet daily committed “practices more shocking and
bloody” than those of any other country on earth. “I am not
included,” he declared, “within the pale of this glorious
anniversary….This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine.”
Independence Day reminded blacks of “crimes which would
disgrace a nation of savages” – a subtle repudiation of
proslavery claims that blacks lacked civilization and therefore
deserved to be in bondage. Like other abolitionists, however,
Douglass also laid claim to the founders’ legacy. The
Revolution had proclaimed “the great principles of political
freedom and of natural justice, embodied in [the] Declaration of
Independence,” from which subsequent generations had
tragically strayed. Only by abolishing slavery and freeing the
ideals of the Declaration from the bonds of race could the
United States recapture its original mission.
Read the attached document and answer the following
questions:
What does Douglass hope to accomplish by accusing white
Americas of injustice and hypocrisy?
What evidence does Douglas present to disprove the idea of
black inferiority?
- At least 150words for each question (total is 300 words at
least)

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IntroductionAbolitionism was the first racially integrated polit.docx

  • 1. Introduction Abolitionism was the first racially integrated political movement in American history. Black orators, many of them fugitive slaves, helped to spread the antislavery message in the North and the British Isles. At every opportunity, black abolitionists offered a sharp critique of the nation’s claim to be a land of liberty. The greatest oration on American slavery and American freedom was delivered in Rochester in 1852 by Frederick Douglass. Speaking just after the annual Independence Day celebration, Douglass posed the question, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” He answered that July 4th festivities revealed the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed its belief in liberty yet daily committed “practices more shocking and bloody” than those of any other country on earth. “I am not included,” he declared, “within the pale of this glorious anniversary….This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine.” Independence Day reminded blacks of “crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages” – a subtle repudiation of proslavery claims that blacks lacked civilization and therefore deserved to be in bondage. Like other abolitionists, however, Douglass also laid claim to the founders’ legacy. The Revolution had proclaimed “the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in [the] Declaration of Independence,” from which subsequent generations had tragically strayed. Only by abolishing slavery and freeing the ideals of the Declaration from the bonds of race could the United States recapture its original mission. Read the attached document and answer the following questions:
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