HIST 16 Santa Monica College What to the Slave is the Fourth of July Discussion
Help me study for my History class. I’m stuck and don’t understand.
Read Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1852) (Links to an external site.)
How can a critical appraisal of a nation’s ills, such as that voiced here by Douglass, make a nation stronger? Why might some find that it makes a nation weaker?
Here is a key excerpt read by the great James Earl Jones
https://youtu.be/8tTkHJWxfP0 (Links to an external site.)
Must be 150 words minimum.