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According to Douglass, black citizens had the same rights to life, liberty, and happiness as white citizens. Douglass argued that the Fourth of July is a reminder of the broken promises of the nation's founders. African-Americans were still enslaved and treated as second-class citizens, even though the nation's founding documents stated that "all men are created equal.". In his view, the Fourth of July reminded us of the hypocrisy of applying the nation's founding ideals of freedom and equality to African-Americans. His argument was that the day was not to celebrate freedom and independence, but rather to remind people of the injustice and oppression they faced.
