“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”, by Frederick Douglass, started his speech by telling everyone how the nation is young and Douglass brought up the American Revolutionaries.He tells his audience that he supports them which makes an argument for the slaves. Then he says he thanks the people who signed the Declaration of Independence because he likes how people want their own independence for their country, however, he pleads his audience to continue to help everyone gain freedom. Frederick Douglass also talks about how at first he started as a slave and how throughout his life he started to learn to read to prove that slaves could be just as intelligent as the white men can since slaves at that time didn’t have the education as the
