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"what to the amencan slave, is your pourth 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 thin
your celebration is a shun; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatne
vanits your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denuncintion of tyrants,
impudenee: your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.
"go where you may search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and desi t he
old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last
lav our facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for
revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival.
choose one of these passages above. identity and write the claim douglass makes