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The goal of the book is to help students find passages to help them prepare that they will find interesting. The three passages here are for fans of Black (African American) history. The first passage, from Frederick Douglass, should take about 13 minutes to read and answer the questions that follow. The second passage, from W. E. B. du Bois’s newspaper The Crisis is longer, but has fewer question and so should take about 13 minutes or so. The third passage, Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is a classic of rhetoric and takes between 30 and 45 minutes to read depending on your reading speed.  \n“WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?” – FREDERICK DOUGLASS  \nThis passage is adapted from a speech by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852 to the Ladies’ AntiSlavery Society in Rochester, NY. Douglass was an abolitionist and former slave who taught himself to read and write.  \nBut I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, and denounce  \n5 less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people  \n10 of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish  \n15 disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to  \n20 the like punishment. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding,  \n25 under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can point to any such laws, in reference to the beasts ofthe field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls ofthe air,  \n30 when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then will I argue with you that the slave is a man!  \nFor the present, it is enough to affirm the equal  \n35 manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we  \n40 are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in  \n45 California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking  \n50 hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, weare called upon to prove that we are men!  \nWould you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? 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