Frederick Douglass starts his speech with a series of questions that regard as to what is his purpose to give this speech at this abolitionist meeting. He goes on to describe the multiple duties in which the slaves have taken part of and how after all that work they are still demanded to prove themselves as righteous man who deserve equal rights as the rest of America. With this he puts into perspective as to what the 4th of July signifies to the American slaves. First, he mentions how it reveals to them the injustice and cruelty in which they are the victim to. Since, it reminds them of how they have been kept from their freedom of liberty to keep them ignorant for them to then take advantage and use them for their own benefit. He highlights
