Frederick Douglass Condemned Slaveholders On 4th Of July

A century and a half before President Barack Obama began captivating the country with the movement of his oratory, another black man has given what some called his speech great.

Frederick Douglass was not only a white father and education of parents in common with the leader of the future of America, Obama, he also shared the vision to change the government. She was in Rochester, New York, in July 1852, when former White slave slavery challenged opponents to give their game, giving the word that author David W. Burn describes as "the removal of masterpiece of rhetoric."

"Other citizens, pardon me, let me ask, why I am asked to speak here today?" Douglass wanted. "What, the American slave, is your fourth of Jul? I answer: a day to point out that it more than any other day of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constantly injured."