Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights

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to them by the founding fathers of the United States, and there is no reason for the blacks to be celebrating the nation’s birthday. Frederick Douglass believed that no black man or woman should be satisfied until their whole race was treated like Americans, and not slaves. Until then the Fourth of July was a holiday which is not “theirs.”
Although Douglass’s speech contains the detestable, horrid facts about slavery and other important issues, he saw a silver lining. “There is hope in the thought,” Douglass said, after he explicated how America is a new nation despite it being around the “old age for a man.” Since the United States has just started out, there is room for reform and changes that will not have the chance to take place if America was older. People should be glad that America is still at the “impressible stage of her existence.” Douglass used the analogy that rivers are like nations. Even though a river can not be turned aside, “it may dry up.” If a nation ...

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