Excerpt from The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro Fredrick Douglass
3 What, to the American stave, is your 4th of July? I 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 shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery: your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-
givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin
veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more
shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
What is the tone of section three?
A)
indignation
B)
reconciliation
C)
regret
D)
sorrow