3 Restoration and Repair

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim…. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.”

—Frederick Douglass, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?,” July 5, 1852