...parade and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy — a thin vail to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There ia not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these...

...vanity ; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless ; your denunciations of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence ; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and more bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour." At the commencement exercises...

...sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere boirtbast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." Douglass early advocated the enlistment of free negroes and slaves in the ranks as soldiers rather...

...national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of...disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States,...

...vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Federick Douglas1 I've been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots...

...and thanksgivings, with all your religious parades and solemnity, are to him, mere fraud, deception and hypocrisy* - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. (Extract from speech by Frederick Douglass, 4 July 1852) • What does this chapter tell us about the...

...is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; . . . your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." Quoted in The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1619-1983, ed. Milton Meltzer (New York:...

...American Slave, is your Fourth of July?" — best exemplifies black ambivalence and dissatisfaction: "Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings...to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."10 This document is one of the most compelling antebellum expressions of discontent and outrage....

...perpetuated slavery. For slaves, he declared in a speech in 1852, the Fourth of July was "mere bombast and fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." During the Civil War, he encouraged the Lincoln administration's gradual steps toward making emancipation...

...vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty, all heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow...crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." See Frederick Douglass, speech at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1 852, in Carter G. Woodson, ed., Negro...