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. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your
national greatness, swelling vanity There is not a nation on the earth guilty of
practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very
hour.
- Frederick Douglass, 1852
Frederick Douglass would MOST likely agree with which statement?
A Enslaved African Americans should rise in revolt against the United States.
B.
The United States is the only country in the world where rights are violated.
C. The values expressed in the Declaration of Independence should be rejected.
D.
American laws should be changed to make them consistent with American ideals.