Happy Fourth of July! Or, Not.
- Douglass wants to know why he's been asked to speak on Independence Day.
- In case you didn't know, he was a slave, and the Fourth of July is all about freedom, which is not something slaves know much about.
- He wonders if he's supposed to be grateful for this opportunity.
- Douglass says it would be so great if he could actually be grateful to the United States and really feel like a citizen, but there is that whole slavery thing, so...