Frederick Douglass (1852).
Does he find that the celebration of the 4th of July is hypocritical because of the country's long time use of slaves?
2007-02-06 05:47:28 · 2 answers · asked by Kendal 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Hypocritical or ironic or shameful or simply irrelevant and cruel to a slave, to see a country celebrate Independence Day while keeping some of its inhabitants in the chains of slavery.
2007-02-06 05:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by C_Bar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he finds it hypocritical because the fourth of July celebrates the day America declared independence, to say that freedom is so important that we would go to war over it....and yet, we kept freedom from the slaves.
Kinda hypocritical, don't you think?
Some African-Americans regard "Juneteenth", or the 19th of June, as being the black Independence day. It celebrates the official abolition of slavery in TX.
2007-02-06 13:53:11 · answer #2 · answered by esquirewinters 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋