Question

testing on thursday on unit 3
18 mark for review
i am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. the blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. the rich inheritance of justice, liberty, property, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. the sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. this fourth of july is yours, not mine. you may rejoice, i must mourn. to drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today?
frederick douglass, african american activist, what to the slave is the fourth of july? speech, 1852
in the excerpt douglass implicitly contrasted the african american experience with ideas expressed in
a the declaration of independence
b the federalist papers
c the bill of rights
d george washingtons farewell address

Explanation:

Douglass contrasts African - American experience with ideals of justice, liberty etc. which are central to the Declaration of Independence.

Answer:

A. the Declaration of Independence