The chief claim of the speech "What to the Slaves is the Fourth of July" by Frederick Douglass was that African Americans deserve equal treatment and status in the American society.
Explanation:
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July“ was a speech by a former slave Frederick Douglass to the Anti-Slavery Society on the Fifth of July,1852, right after the Fourth of July celebration of the United States. In the speech, he addresses the issue of the celebration of July 4th by Americans as the day of freedom while his people (the blacks) were still under oppression. Referring to the American Constitutional values of liberty and equality to its citizens, he reiterated that the blacks were still denied these same rights. He demands for the government to confer equal status and treatment to the blacks with those of their fellow white citizens.
