There is no better example of how one can balance America’s strivings and failures than that provided by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass in his famous July 5, 1852, speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
Frederic J. Fransen
Frederic J. Fransen is president of Ameritas College Huntington (W. Va.) and chairman of Certell, Inc., a national education-technology nonprofit.
The Shot Heard ’Round the World
American and European intellectuals had been comparing the merits of a hypothetical world based on equality, reason and nature to the world in which they lived — based on habit, custom and superstition. The American Revolution tested their theories in the real world.
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