LAD#16

After reading Fredrick Douglas's "What to The Slave is The 4th of July" speech, this is the summary I came up with:
Frederick Douglas starts off by asking questions about what the Fourth of July, the Declaration of Independence, and other patriotic things do for African Americans, particularly the slaves. Next he goes on to talk about how African Americans are kept out of being able to contribute to the celebrations because of the inequality between them and whites and because most of them are slaves. After this, he points out that while all the white men are celebrating, the African Americans are being basically tortured in slavery. He ends by saying that the white and the black need to be equal. They are people, too, and should be treated as such.

Frederick Douglas(click hyperlink for source)

My source for this:
What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?