The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Frederick Douglass: What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?

Not much, of course.

But his denunciation of slavery in America as the greatest crime in history was pure bombast.

He spoke on July 5, 1852 in Rochester, New York.

He spoke well, though not without understandable absurdity.

Did American slavery really prove American Christianity a lie?

American republicanism a sham?

American humanity a base pretense?

Well, as to that last,  . . . .

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