Question

What associations do the Fourth of July and Independence Day evoke? How would have an enslaved person in 1852 answer that question? What is ironic about Fourth of July celebrations for/to enslaved people?

Answer 1

Answer:

the Declaration of Independence is used to remind the country of its potential and promise, and to him, race was always the measure of that,” he says. “America, by its nature, is never quite fulfilling all of those promises.”

Explanation:

Reconstruction brought its own fears, like violence from the Ku Klux Klan, Douglass shifted his speech for the day, asking, “If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks, what will peace among the whites bring?” But the 1852