"Lovers of Ease and Worshipers of Property"
Reading Frederick Douglass' "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?"
On the 2nd of July, 1776, the old Continental Congress, to the dismay of the lovers of ease, and the worshipers of property, clothed that dreadful idea with all the authority of national sanction…
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…
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