I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slaves point of view. Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every man at all observant of the actual state of the case will receive as truth, when he declared that There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.Let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery and slave-holding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds; and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive.In prosecuting the anti-slavery enterprise, we have been asked to spare the church, to spare the ministry; but how, we ask, could such a thing be done? Repetition Parallel structure ethos pathos Analogy Simile/Metaphor Rhetorical Question logos Part 2 - Slavery in America Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called uponto speak here today? By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, Mason and Dixons line has been obliterated, Did this law concern the mint, anise, and cumin. Products. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. He argues that though the international slave trade is correctly decried as abhorrent, the people of the United States are far less vocal in their opposition to domestic slave trade. and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! The duty to extirpate and destroy it, is admitted even by our DOCTORS OF DIVINITY. Heat and sorrow have nearly consumed their strength; suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of a rifle; the fetters clank, and the chain rattles simultaneously; your ears are saluted with a scream, that seems to have torn its way to the center of your soul! He is outraged by the lack of responsibility and indifference towards slavery that many sects have taken around the nation. May of Syracuse, and my esteemed friend (Rev. Douglass then pivots to the present, stating that "We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future". Over 150,000 persons were sold between 1820 and 1830, and over 300,000 were sold between 1850 and 1860.[15]. This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 19:31. Douglass, Frederick, ed. There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray. What characteristics does he praise about them? 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. Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. Attend the auction; see men examined like horses; see the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed to the shocking gaze of American slave-buyers. He took action to raise the voices of others and to aid their work on the national stage, especially that of two Black women in the last half of the 19th century. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment. I scout the idea that the question of the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of slavery is not a question for the people. 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 year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. The testimony of Senator Breese, Lewis Cass, and many others that might be named, who are everywhere esteemed as sound lawyers, so regard the constitution. Ossie DavisA Voice Ringing O'er the Gale! Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throng of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. "Meaning of the Fourth of July to a Negro" by Bridget Durham The Fourth of July is a day of celebration for many Americans because on July 4th, 1776, America declared independence from Britain and said that everyone was free under the US government, right? That people contented themselves under the shadow of Abrahams great name, while they repudiated the deeds which made his name great. Douglass builds his argument by using surprising contrasts, plain facts, and provocative antithesis. In the second part of the speech, Douglass turns to the present and his own feelings about the 4th of July . Of this sort of change they are always strongly in favor. The oath of any two villains is sufficient, under this hell-black enactment, to send the most pious and exemplary black man into the remorseless jaws of slavery! O! Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king-hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their offices under an open and palpable bribe, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a mans liberty, hear only his accusers!In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.Take the American slave-trade, which, we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, and thugs. He faults America for utter hypocrisy and betrayal of those values in maintaining the institution of slavery. When a child, my soul was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. [8] Frederick Douglass had moved to Rochester in 1847 in order to publish his newspaper The North Star. Yet this is but a glance at the American slave-trade, as it exists, at this moment, in the ruling part of the United States.I was born amid such sights and scenes. From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. Yet his monument is built up by the price of human blood, and the traders in the bodies and souls of men shoutWe have Washington to our father.Alas! The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. Knowledge is becoming more readily available, Douglass said, and soon the American people will open their eyes to the atrocities they have been inflicting on their fellow Americans. In the end, Douglass wants to keep his hope and faith in humanity high. 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. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. [11] Additionally, he had spoken there less than three months prior to this speech, on March 25. No! Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? You discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor; yet, you sustain a system which, in its very essence, casts a stigma upon labor. In the language of Isaiah, the American church might be well addressed, Bring no more vain ablations; incense is an abomination unto me: the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity even the solemn meeting. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. There are illustrations of it near and remote, ancient and modern. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass 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. Douglass addressed a part of the population for which the day had huge significance the true independence, he argues, is not for the American people, but for the American slave. I repeat, I am glad this is so. your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery." Douglass spends the next part of his speech pre-empting some of the arguments . On July 5, 1852, in . What would be thought of an instrument, drawn up, legally drawn up, for the purpose of entitling the city of Rochester to a track of land, in which no mention of land was made? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. that he is the rightful owner of his own body? "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Kate Harris Date Published September 28, 2016 Last Modified November 14, 2021 Description. Ex-Senator Benton tells us that the price of men was never higher than now. The speech has been notably performed or read by important figures, including the following: The paragraphing referenced here is taken from an edition of the speech at, African Americans In Congress: A Documentary History, by Eric Freedman and Stephen A, Jones, 2008, p. 39, "Activist Public Relations and the Paradox of the Positive: A Case Study of Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July Address", "One of American History's Worst Laws Was Passed 165 Years Ago", "The Operation of the Fugitive Slave Law in Western Pennsylvania from 1850 to 1860", The American Constitutional Experience: Selected Readings & Supreme Court Opinions, Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings, "Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down On Anniversary Of Famous Speech", "Frederick Douglass statue torn down in Rochester, N.Y., on anniversary of his famous Fourth of July speech", "Frederick Douglass statue torn down on anniversary of great speech", "VIDEO: Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth Of July' Speech", A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass's Descendants Deliver His 'Fourth of July' Speech, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=What_to_the_Slave_Is_the_Fourth_of_July%3F&oldid=1137650578. They perambulate the country, and crowd the highways of the nation, with droves of human stock. Tell me citizens, WHERE, under the sun, you can witness a spectacle more fiendish and shocking. How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? [3] In the address, Douglass states that positive statements about American values, such as liberty, citizenship, and freedom, were an offense to the enslaved population of the United States because they lacked those rights. Douglass vividly describes the conditions under which those enslaved are bought and sold; he says that they are treated as no more than animals. or is it in the temple? That trade has long since been denounced by this government, as piracy. Is it at the gateway? It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God. "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" remains one of the most effective and poignant condemnations of slavery in the canon of American abolitionist literature, a tribute to the moral character and oratorical skills of Frederick Douglass. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. In the solitude of my spirit, I see clouds of dust raised on the highways of the South; I see the bleeding footsteps; I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity, on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. It is said that America is built on the idea of liberty and freedom, but Douglass tells his audience that more than anything, it is built on inconsistencies and hypocrisies that have been overlooked for so long they appear to be truths. He talks about how Americans are proud of their country and their religion and how they rejoice in the name of freedom and liberty and yet they do not offer those things to millions of their country's residents. To arrest it, to put an end to it, this nation keeps a squadron, at immense cost, on the coast of Africa. Yea! His own testimony is nothing. However, if slavery were abolished and equal rights given to all, that would no longer be the case. Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester, NY, on July. You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas Jefferson, is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose, a seventh part of the inhabitants of your country.Fellow-citizens! On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass-- a former American slave, abolitionist leader and adroit speaker-- spoke in Rochester, New York about the affectation of celebrating independence. The charter of our liberties, which every citizen has a personal interest in understanding thoroughly. The subject has been handled with masterly power by Lysander Spooner, Esq., by William Goodell, by Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., and last, though not least, by Gerritt Smith, Esq. You profess to believe that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth, and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; yet you notoriously hate, (and glory in your hatred), all men whose skins are not colored like your own. But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented. The speech 'What to the Slaves is the Fourth of July' projected the American Day of Independence from a slave's point of view and brought to light the horrific experiences of slavery. By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form. Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? Where these are, man is not sacred. The accepted time with God and his cause is the ever-living now. They went so far in their excitement as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive, and altogether such as ought not to be quietly submitted to. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery. Hear his savage yells and his blood-chilling oaths, as he hurries on his affrighted captives! He celebrates the efforts of the founding fathers of America for fighting back against the tyranny of England.[18]. Now, there are certain rules of interpretation, for the proper understanding of all legal instruments. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? 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. The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it. Alison Drasner, the project coordinator for the Somerville Museum, teamed up with Dave Ortega at the Somerville Media Center to prerecord voices of 50 Somerville residents, including my 7-year-old daughter, Charlotte, to read sections of the speech. Sign up for daily emails to get the latest Harvardnews. Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? It is neither. Genius is the ultimate source of music knowledge, created by scholars like you who share facts and insight about the songs and artists they love. He describes the legislation as "tyrannical," and believes that it is in "violation of justice.". The Oratory of Fr. We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future. These men were generally well dressed men, and very captivating in their manners. He argues that the Constitution does not permit slavery, contrary to the claims of contemporary defenders of the institution. (1982). Yet this is but a glance at the American slave-trade, as it exists, at this moment, in the ruling part of the United States. The occasion was the Society's Fourth of July celebration, but Douglass refused to give the speech on July 4; he would not celebrate the holiday so long as African Americans remained enslaved. You glory in your refinement and your universal education yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nationa system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. Is slavery among them? They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done. The British accomplished this through religion or more specifically, the church. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. From what quarter, I beg to know, has proceeded a fire so deadly upon our ranks, during the last two years, as from the Northern pulpit? With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression. These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? The speech has since been published under the above title in The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One, Vol. They, however, gradually flow back to the same old channel, and flow on as serenely as ever. Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission. be warned! welcome atheism! [4], Noted for its biting irony and bitter rhetoric, and acute textual analysis of the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Christian Bible, the speech is among the most widely known of all of Douglass's writings. 2003. Great Britain, and many other countries of that time, had already abolished slavery from its territories. Where these go, may also go the merciless slave-hunter. Your President, your Secretary of State, your lords, nobles, and ecclesiastics, enforce, as a duty you owe to your free and glorious country, and to your God, that you do this accursed thing. Douglass believed that slavery could be eliminated with the support of the church, and also with the reexamination of what the Bible was actually saying. You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a threepenny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard-earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. But we also need to invest as a city and as a society into reading and learning more about the present realities of oppressed peoples. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? Must we allow symbols of racism on public land? To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. [7], The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1851. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity.For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. This trade is one of the peculiarities of American institutions. In his speech, "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery . For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. What is now known as the "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" speech was delivered on July 5, 1852 as an address to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, New York. Douglass says that if the residents of America believe that slaves are "men",[20]:342 they should be treated as such. There are exceptions, and I thank God that there are. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a by word to a mocking earth. Mark the sad procession, as it moves wearily along, and the inhuman wretch who drives them. Is slavery among them? Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth. Great for your high school American Literature class. [17] This act drew the ire of the abolitionist movement,[9] and was directly criticized by Douglass in his speech. ts future might be shrouded in gloom, and the hope of its prophets go out in sorr. Not fewer than forty Americans have, within the past two years, been hunted down and, without a moments warning, hurried away in chains, and consigned to slavery and excruciating torture. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. He refers to the Constitution as a "Glorious Liberty Document". We are met on the threshold of our efforts for the redemption of the slave, by the church and ministry of the country, in battle arrayed against us; and we are compelled to fight or flee. To honor Black History Month, as an introduction or review of rhetorical appeals and devices, or as a speech exemplar, this Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" rhetoric activity is a fabulous addition to any lesson. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to. The country can progress like it has before, transforming from being a colony of a far-away king to an independent nation. If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me in this matter, and feels able to disprove my statements, I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and place he may select.I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it.At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. You know what is a swine-drover? 2. Follow the drove to New Orleans. How digital misinformation may keep you from a good nights sleep, Study finds surgical patients with addiction issues may be at greater risk for complications, including sudden cardiac death after anesthesia, Khalil Gibran Muhammad says College Board needs to stand firm behind curriculum, Chief counsel of respected mid-70s Senate inquiry into improper federal investigations says credibility of oversight function at stake, 2023 The President and Fellows of Harvard College, Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, By Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite Harvard Staff Writer, Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? in 1852, drawing parallels between the Revolutionary War and the fight to abolish slavery. One small step toward understanding gravity, Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave-trade) the internal slave trade. It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave-trade is contemplated. Douglass then returns to the topic of the founding of the United States. You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sad story of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms to vindicate her cause against her oppressors; but, in regard to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as an enemy of the nation who dares to make those wrongs the subject of public discourse! 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