Read the excerpt from "what to the slave is the fourth of july? "
to him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity;
your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts
of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and , with all your
religious parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to
cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.