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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 of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. "
Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme ... - Page 104
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1993
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers

David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - 1855 - 408 pages
...gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight. 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...
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The Bicentennial of the United States of America: A Final Report ..., Volume 1

American Revolution Bicentennial Administration - 1977 - 308 pages
..."This Fourth [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...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...
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Prison Slavery

Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 pages
...Zeitschriftfurdiegasamte Strafrechswissenschaft, 54(1935), 546-547. 42. Ibid., p. 182. Chapter 2: A New Nation What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?...day that 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...
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Protest & Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion

Jon Michael Spencer - 1991 - 280 pages
...the Captives" (No. 203), John Greenleaf Whittier came close to versifying Douglass's own response, "I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all...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...
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Politics of Black Nationalism: From Harlem to Soweto

Kinfe Abraham - 1991 - 306 pages
...CONSCIOUSNESS Black Nationalism vs the Imperialist Heritage What to the 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 he is the constant victim. To him your celebration...
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Black Peoples of the Americas

Nigel Smith - 1992 - 54 pages
...Frederick Douglass, speaking at a Fourth of July (American Independence Day) celebration. Source F What, to the American slave, is your fourth of July?...celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy v ', .... ^m -., ( ., s , license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing...
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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada

Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 pages
...that few of the whites in attendance had ever faced before: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more...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...
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Race in America: The Struggle for Equality

Herbert Hill, James Edward Jones (Jr.) - 1993 - 484 pages
...America was the quintessential democracy. That is why Douglass could ask the nation in July of 1852, "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?...injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." The slave, therefore, dreamed of and fought for real democracy. Indeed, the slave advocated a democracy...
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Begrimed and Black: Christian Traditions on Blacks and Blackness

Robert Earl Hood - 220 pages
...1960, 171. By contrast, Frederick Douglass wrote in an article, "What Is Your Fourth of July to Me?": "What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?...a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration...
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African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources

Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 pages
...of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?...days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty of which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy...
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