https://youtu.be/NBe5qbnkqoM I found this video to be particularly moving as I struggle to know how to approach our Independence Day. How do I reconcile the feelings of sorrow and loss about the history of slavery and of the treatment of Native Americans with the general feelings of levity about Fourth of July festivities. Fireworks! BBQs! A day off work! As these different issues bump around in my mind, Frederick Douglas' words fill out the sail of concerns in my mind. He wrote his speech What to the Slave is the 4th of July in 1852, before the end of slavery. But as we have seen, slavery was replaced with other…