 | 1926 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | American Revolution Bicentennial Administration - 1977 - 308 pages
...[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... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 pages
...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;... | |
 | Jon Michael Spencer - 280 pages
...(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... | |
 | Kinfe Abraham - 1991 - 306 pages
...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;... | |
 | Nigel Smith - 1992 - 54 pages
...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... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | Roger W. Wilkins - 2002 - 188 pages
...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,... | |
 | Gary Gerstle - 2001 - 474 pages
...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... | |
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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 in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. 
