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He wishes he could have an “affirmative answer” (Douglass, paragraph 2).

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The mournful wail that gives Douglass the topic for his speech is of “millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them” (Douglass, paragraph 4).

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Douglass says that laws in the South are anti-black. For example, in Virginia, “there are seventy-two crimes…which, if committed by a black man, subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment” (Douglass, paragraph 5).

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Douglass thinks that God does not approve of slavery. He did not create it because it is inhuman and what is inhuman, “cannot be divine” (Douglass, 9).

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Douglass,at the end of this excerpt, sees encouraging signs. He says, “There are forces in operation which must inevitably work the downfall of slavery” (Douglass, paragraph 12).

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This excerpt discusses the unfair and unjust treatment of black people in the US, saying that independence day is not a day of celebration for this community because they are still being treated like slaves, like they are less than human, less than the white people.