What is the chief claim of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

Frederick Douglass’s central point is that celebrating freedom and equality on the Fourth of July is hypocritical while Black people remain enslaved and denied their rights. He calls for Black Americans to receive the liberty and equal treatment the nation claims to uphold. Choice B is too narrow: the speech attacks slavery, but its chief claim is about the contradiction between American ideals and the treatment of Black people.

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