"Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits..." Why does Frederick Douglass call into question the relevance of the Fourth of July for African Americans in 1852?a. He argues that the same liberties that were being celebrated on the Fourth of July were not extended to him or his peopleb. Douglass opposed America's victory during the American Revolutionc. Douglass argued that African Americans should celebrate the date that northern blacks achieved freedomd. He claims that African Americans should focus not on past success but rather on future goals

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