English, 02.12.2020 01:00, allisongallion23

Identify places in this paragraph where Douglass uses contrast to build his
argument. What is the effect of choices
of words in this paragraph on the
audience?
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I a day that reveals to him the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, our celebration is a
sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, shameful; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bragging, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour."
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