write few sentences expressing the feeling of a slave who became a free man class 9 history
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America, like every Independence Day, celebrated its liberty the fourth of July 1852. Frederick Douglass, the most prominent American anti-slavery protester and fugitive slave, had no space to celebrate; he saw the octopus slave arms scattered all over, revealing America's hollowness in liberty ideals. He gave the largest anti-slavery speech in American history on that holiday. Today it has its relevance. Not least because slavery's racism persists. And America's just ideals and unfair realities also remain contradictory.
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A Jist of how he expressed his feelings is given below
- I am not going to expect to linger long on the cluster comparisons around this day. Oppression is making a man wise foolish. Your ancestors were wise and they were restive under this abuse, though they did not go insane. The freedom you have gained is yours, so you can celebrate this anniversary correctly. Stick to that day with the grasp of a storm-runner at midnight, and to its principles
- This glorious anniversary, I am not included! Even the incredible distance between us shows your high freedom. You, not I, bear the rich heritage of peace, democracy, stability, and liberty tradition of your ancestors. The sunshine, which gave you life and healing, gave me stripes and pain.
- This July 4th is yours, not mine. I have to weep, you should celebrate. Inhumane mockery is to bring a person into the grand temple of freedom in fetters and to call on him to join you in joyful anthems. Do you mean to mock me, citizens, by asking me today to speak?
- I hear the pained wail of millions above your nationwide, turbulent joy, whose chains yesterday, heavy and gruesome, are made today more insufferable by the jubilee screams reaching. My theme is AMERICAN SLAVERY and my fellow citizens.
- What's your 4th of july for the American slave? I reply: a day that reveals to him the great injustice and cruelty to which he is the permanent victim, more than all the other days of the year.
- To him your celebrations are shameful: your joyful freedom, your unholy license; your national grandeur, your compassionless vanities; your joyful tones emptied; your complaints against tyrants, your brass-faced impudence, your cries for freedom and equality, your fierce mockery; your ritual and prayer, your penance and your thanks, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere mere deception, fraud, hypocrisy, impiety – a veil to cover up crimes that would disgrace a country of savage
- The only thing that really disturbs and undermines your Union is the antagonistic power of your country. It will hamper your progress, it will be your enemy of enlightenment, the deadly foe of education, it will encourage pride, it will bring insolence, it will encourage vice; it will shelter the crime; it will sustain the earth's wickedness and you will stick to it, as though it were your whole hopes' anchor board.
- American! American! You have flagrant incoherence in your Republican politics. Within this land your republicanism, your morality as a mere pretense and your christianity as a deception are indicative of the life of slavery. It destroys abroad your moral power; it leads to corrupting your politicians in your own country. The root of the faith is destroyed, the name is a shrieking and a joke for a nation.
- Allow me finally , despite my dark picture of the state of the nation this day, I do not despair of this country. There are powers at work that have to work gradually to reduce slavery. "The doom of slavery" is certain: "The Lord 's arm is not shortened." So, with anticipation, I leave where I started.
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