Fredrick Douglass starts his speech by asking what right he has to talk about independance when the freedom in the Declaration of Independence wasn't extended to african americans. He then asks the question, "
Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs?" to which he responds "I am not that man". He claims that this is not his fourth of July because when white men received freedom, his people were still slaves. Other Americans should be ashamed instead of happy because of the sin of slavery.
"Ain't I A Woman?" is speech by a black woman in America against the treatment she has received throughout her life. Just because she works in the fields or isn't as smart as white women, doesn't mean she should not receive the same respect. She also mentioned that God and a woman made christ and men had nothing to do with it.
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