Frederick Douglass acknowledges that the actual focus of his speech is American slavery. He criticizes America for straying from its past, present, and foundational ideals.
The nation's founders' ideals must be upheld by the audience. Douglass informs the audience that the slave believes that "your fourth of July is a fraud; your vaunted liberty, an unholy permission [for oppressing blacks] your screams of liberty and equality, hollow mockery."
Douglass criticizes American churches and clergy for being silent about slavery (with the obvious exception of movements like Garrison's).
Douglass returns to his subject of American freedom and democracy. He calls out American philosophy as being contradictory. He believes that despite its claim to freedom, not everyone has that right.
In a similar manner, he argues that despite the American Declaration of Independence's claim that "all men are created equal," both men and women are treated unequally in American culture.
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