Question

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer; 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. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.
—Frederick Douglass

Identify the claim in the passage.
A: The holiday pleases enslaved people.
B: The holiday insults enslaved people.
C: The holiday could be better.

Answer 1

B: Because as it states it’s a day that reveals him more than any other day , Which causes him to be a constant victim

Answer 2

Honestly i think its B because at the end of the passage Fredrick Douglass states “your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery.” Plus the whole passage gives of the vibe of blame and insult