 | Frederick Douglass - 1855 - 512 页
...What to the American slave is your Fourth of July 1 I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than nil other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty...is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is n sham ; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity ; your sounds... | |
 | David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - 1855 - 408 页
...gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July ? I answer: a*day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to... | |
 | American Revolution Bicentennial Administration - 1977 - 308 页
..."This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. . . . What to the American slave, is your 4th of July? l answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other...constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; . . ." Fortunately, in the 1960's and '70s there were others who felt differently. Vincent A. deForest... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 页
...Zeitschriftfurdiegasamte Strafrechswissenschaft, 54(1935), 546-547. 42. Ibid., p. 182. Chapter 2: A New Nation What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?...day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is a constant victim. To him, your celebration... | |
 | Jon Michael Spencer - 280 页
...the Captives" (No. 203), John Greenleaf Whittier came close to versifying Douglass's own response, "I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Whittier wrote: M Watts says: "And not only must we be sensible of our being expos'd to Divine Anger... | |
 | Kinfe Abraham - 1991 - 306 页
...CONSCIOUSNESS Black Nationalism vs the Imperialist Heritage What to the American slave is your Founh of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration... | |
 | Nigel Smith - 1992 - 54 页
...Listen now to Frederick Douglass, speaking at a Fourth of July (American Independence Day) celebration. What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July?...celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy v ', .... ^m -., ( ., s , license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 页
...that few of the whites in attendance had ever faced before: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. . . . You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization and your pure Christianity, while... | |
 | Herbert Hill, James Edward Jones (Jr.) - 1993 - 484 页
...America was the quintessential democracy. That is why Douglass could ask the nation in July of 1852, "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." The slave, therefore, dreamed of and fought for real democracy. Indeed, the slave advocated a democracy... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - 220 页
...1960, 171. By contrast, Frederick Douglass wrote in an article, "What Is Your Fourth of July to Me?": "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?...a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration... | |
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What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. 
