Evaluate the reasoning Douglass uses in the passage by determining whether the conclusion is
valid or invalid.
"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."

The slaves are not happy, the white people can go unpunished when they harm the slaves, Hugh told Douglass that he could never read because it is the destiny of the slaves to be uneducated. The masters gave whiskeys to their slaves to get them drunk and brainwashed into believing that freedom is painful. The erroneous conclusion that many white people make when they hear slaves sing is that they think the songs of the slaves are happy, but in reality the slaves sing when they are very unhappy.

Evaluate the reasoning Douglass uses in the passage by determining whether the conclusion is valid or invalid.