What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. He character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July. Known as a dazzling orator, he had this to say in a 4th of July address in 1852: Thus his understanding and analysis of the complex country and its culture is more complete and balanced than most.

However, he experienced the nation more fully than any of them, beginning his life a victim of the totalitarian fascism they practiced and promoted, and ending it a statesman and a friend of President Lincoln. Frederick Douglass, one of the most brilliant minds in history, had many praises for the US and its founders.

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