Question

WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?

Answer 1

Answer:

According to Douglass, the ones who are unable to experience the joy of the celebration are:

C. all enslaved people.

Explanation:

Frederick Douglass makes a clear distinction in his speech between what the Fourth of July means to white people and what it means to black people. White people were celebrating their freedom on that day. However, according to Douglass, black people could not do so. They did not partake in that freedom. America was blind to their captivity while celebrating its own freedom, that is, the liberty of her white sons and daughters. The world is different for those who are enslaved. According to Douglass, even sunlight in different, for it brings death instead of life to them. How could he, his brothers and sisters, his friends, their children, how could all of them celebrate? There was no joy for them on that day. That day was not meant for them, for they were not free.