Quotes:
"The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable- and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight.
Frederick is saying how it will take a while for African American slaves to gain freedom.
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.
He means that although 4th of July is celebrated because of freedom, slaves don't have their freedom yet and consider the day to be injustice.
"...I see the bleeding footsteps...on the way to the slave-markets, where victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine..."
Frederick says this because slaves were considered as property and were sold like they were nothing.
"An American judge gets ten dollars for every victim he consigns to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so..."
He's basically saying that the Fugitive Slave Law is not right since judges are getting money.
"The arm of the Lord is not shortened, and the doom of slavery is certain."
Frederick has confidence that slavery will end by saying this.
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| Frederick Douglass |
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