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The speech,” What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, unmasked how hypocritical our nation really was. ... Douglass asked his privileged audience, "What to the American slave is your 4th of July?" Douglass answered that for the slave, it was "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. ... The abolition of slavery in the North, was completed by the 1830s, which causes a division of the United States into the slave South and the free North. Despite this, the slave economy grew fast, enhanced by the increase in cotton cultivation to meet the growing demand of Northern and European textile manufacturers.
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