Question 16
1 am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in whi
common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought
and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, /must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and c
were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?"
Frederick Douglass, African American activist, "What to
Which of the following was a key purpose of the excerpt?
To encourage revolts among enslaved people
B
To support colonization for free Black people
D
To advocate for reparation payments for formerly enslaved people
To condemn the conflict between American ideals and practices