...may rejoice, I must mourn. . . . 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...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery...

...[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 days in the...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...

...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 is a sham;...sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery;...

...(No. 203), John Greenleaf Whittier came close to versifying Douglass's own response, "I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the...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...

...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...celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy licence; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless;...

...Independence Day) celebration. Source F 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...celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy v ', .... ^m -., ( ., s , license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing...

...attendance had ever faced before: 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...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...

...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...swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heardess; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality,...

...similarly asked, "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?" His answer, like Apess', was "that it reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."20 Yet Webster had found a powerful antislavery message in the heritage of Plymouth Rock: The...

...Rochester, New York, "is July 4th to the black American?" Douglass had answered his question in this way: "To him, your celebration is a sham: your boasted...your national greatness, swelling vanity . . . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings . . . mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and...