One way or the other Douglass is right when he says that it wasn’t a day for him to celebrate but to mourn. In the speech What to the Slave is the fourth of July, He talks about how the people are celebrating the fact that they are being freed from oppression but he feels and with the right argument if you ask me that they, the men of color, are not free but still oppressed. His speech does have a lot of anger in his words but in his right place. How can they celebrate being freed from those who oppressed them but not do the same to those they oppress? I believe his argument is still as effective even when using the tone he uses. It is hypocritical what is going on during his speech, one of the most impacting statements Douglass (1852-1855)