Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

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@Uniq

This is why I think that in modern times, he would be one of those voices in the black community that would be preaching self reliance and grit and pushing back against the welfare state.

It’s all conjecture of course, but his writings and the transcripts of his speeches really paint a picture of an incredibly old-school conservative to me. I would hate to be the one to have to explain the modern day tax code to him after he got off the time machine.

Nonetheless, his essay makes a valid and cogent point. Even the broken clock that’s right twice a day still is correct on those two moments.