Frederick Douglass delivers his famous speech, "What…
July 1852 CE to 1863 CE
While referring to the celebrations of the American Independence day the day before, the speech explores the constitutional and values-based arguments against the Slave trade within the United States.
Douglass suggests that positive statements about American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, ware an offense to the enslaved people of the United States because of their lack of freedom, liberty, and citizenship.
As well, Douglass refers not only to the captivity of enslaved people, but to their merciless exploitation and the cruelty and torture to which they are subjected while enslaved.
Douglass compares the treatment of slaves to that of American colonists under British rule and urges them to help the slaves like they helped themselves when breaking free.
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