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Asking an enslaved man to join in celebrating liberty is inhuman mockery
Drawn from what Frederick Douglass said
What Frederick Douglass actually said
- Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer (about 1817 to 1895)
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
Where this was said
↗What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (Rochester, 5 July 1852)en.wikisource.org
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