What To A Slave Is The Forth Of July Analysis

Douglass’s, What to a slave is the forth of July?, is a warning to the nation that slavery is not acceptable, due to the human rights of other men. He talks about the hope he has for the nation and believes that slavery, for the nation would end, by calling slavery, the “dark clouds which lower above the horizon.” To make his point about the evils of slavery Douglass writes using biblical analogies paralleling his experiences with slavery, to those of Israelites exiting slavery from Egypt. He says that the 4th of July to an Americans is like the Passover holiday to the Jew because it makes both of them think back to the founding of their nations.
Douglass continually speaks using the words “you” and “your”, by doing this I believe that he