Frederick Douglass' Fourth of July oration is a very moving and eye-opening speech. In reading this and trying to build a picture of what this might have been like to see or watch is amazing. Also as I read this and I realized a lot of things about how there are so many things that people don't think about or choose to think about. Douglass did something that not many people would be able to do today. As I read the speech thinking it is going in one direction, but expecting something is building behind the scenes and then it completely changes. This speech is very moving and probably the most powerful piece I have read so far.

The audience that I think he is speaking to is very revealing about who the people in the crowd are. In reading this speech I feel that the majority of the people in the crowd are white if not all of them. I can also picture that the crowd is full of important people who are expecting to hear about how they are so great for keeping the nation going and how far they have come since they had gained there freedom from the British. These men and women in the audience are waiting to hear about how they have done so much for the country and how they have helped bla

The strategies that Douglass uses I feel are very effective. He begins his speech by pointing out how nervous he is and about how he might look relaxed but he is far from it. Douglass then goes on about how we live in a great nation that was founded by great men. He continues with the inspiring remarks of this country and how it has gone through so much and it is still only a child. He gives the audience what it wants to hear, feeding their egos. And it seems once the audience is full of itself he changes directions and lets the audience know what it is like today. He points out the disgrace of this country towards its people. He points out the disgrace we are towards God. He points out the disgrace we are to our fellow man. Douglass in his speaking to the crowd points out that things need to be changed, about how doesn't know how he and the Negro race can be expected to celebrate when they are still being persecuted and oppressed.

makes it great, he made people understand there was no forcing there were only words and many people making the decision on their own.

The reason the speech was given was first for the fourth of July. The reason that Douglass gave the speech he did was to open societies eyes to what is going on around them. It was to open the people's eyes to American slavery. The people chose not to look at the wrong doings of their actions and in turn are slapping the black race in the face. There is a country that it is celebrating its freedom from the tyranny it had experienced many years before. And then is expecting the Negro to celebrate too. They also ask Do

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