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. To Him, Your Celebration Is A Sham; Your Boasted Liberty, An Unholy License; Your National Greatness, Swelling Vanity; Your Sounds Of Rejoicing Are Empty And Heartless; Your Denunciation Of Tyrants, Brass-Fronted Impudence; Your Shouts Of Liberty And Equality, Hollow Mockery. —Frederick Douglass Identify The Claim In The Passage.. What, to the american slave, is your 4th of july? 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.

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. What, to the american slave, is your 4th of july? 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.