Fourth of July-Tim Fisher

I've never read anything from Frederick Douglass before, but I must say that I greatly enjoyed his fire and brimstone speaking methods. While he have only been speaking in front of a ladies anti-slavery society, that didn't change his speaking methods at all. He spoke as if he were speaking to our country's leaders, and he let them have it. He was all business in the speech, and he was ready for a fight.

Frederick Douglas

I found his way of saying how a slave is not a human to be very interesting and very good. He makes the other side, put them in his shoes as best as he can. He tries to make you feel like what a former slave might feel on the 4th of July. Its a day that can actually cause pain instead of normally the joy we feel. I thought it was a very effective way to make his point

I amire Fredrick Douglas's courage to speak about something he was very passionate about no matter what kind of backlash was to be expected. He was able to bring to attention how ironic the celebrations of the fourth of july is to commemorate liberty for all men of america, and yet there is slavery abound across the nation. He also sheds light on how the slaves had felt on those celebrations of how brutal and harsh their lives are belittled by the american man that supports the liberty of all man kind.

4th of July response

I think he spends much of his time on the topics that do not need to be argued because it gives the reader another side of the story. It gives them something to compare his arguments to, so it is not just him telling his audience what he thinks. These points also make his essay better because he is able to give good counter arguments towards those topics that do not need to be argued.

Slaves on the 4th

I believe that Douglass spends so much time argueing points that are common knowledge to everyone because at the time they were still being ignored. People "believed" in the fact that all men were created equal, but for some reason they didn't view slaves that way. His purpose was to inform people that they were being hippocrites, claiming they loved freedom and sitting back as slaves worked for them. It may seem pointless to argue these points, but in reality it was what the people needed to hear.