In his speech, Frederick Douglas claims that he sees Independence Day as the day of great injustice because only white people have rights and liberties in the US. He believes that the Declaration of Independence is fiction, as its principles do not apply to black people. Douglas blames Americans for being hypocritical and states that no other nation has done so many atrocities as theirs. The speaker abhors the US for what it has done to black people, but he only seeks freedom and justice for the whole country; that is why in some way, he remains a country’s patriot.
In his speech on Independence Day of 1852, what were Douglass’s feelings toward the Declaration of Independence? To what degree was he or was he not an American patriot?
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