Fourth of July response

After reading What the A Slave is the Fourth of July, I came to understand what Douglous meant during his passage. Douglous believes that The Fourth of July to a slave is a figurative slap in the face because when the colonies gained independence from Britain, only the colonists obtained their freedom, while the slaves went from slaves to Britain and then to the colonists, to just being slaves to the colonists, they gained absolutely no independence. With this thought, The Fourth of July is a day to hate for the slaves and when making a slave bear through a day that celebrates someone else’s independence while you are still shackled to the oppression of slavery, while you are expected to smile and celebrate in a very limited fashion. That is what Douglous thinks about the Fourth of July.