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Selectiоn C — Frederick Dоuglаss — Pаrt 1 оf 7Work: “Whаt to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852), assigned Gilder Lehrman excerptHistorical context: Speaking in Rochester in 1852, Douglass exposes the contradiction between American celebrations of freedom and the continued existence of slavery.The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to--day is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom . . . There is consolation in the thought, that America is young. —Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages.
Selectiоn C — Frederick Dоuglаss — Pаrt 2 оf 7They mаy sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty, and inundate the land, refreshing and fertilizing the earth with their mysterious properties. They may also rise in wrath and fury, and bear away, on their angry waves, the accumulated wealth of years of toil and hardship. They, however, gradually flow back to the same old channel, and flow on as serenely as ever. But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss--sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. As with rivers so with nations. . . . The simple story of it is, that, 76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects . . . You were under the British Crown . . . But, your fathers . . . They went so far in their excitement as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive, and altogether such as ought not to be quietly submitted to . . .
Selectiоn B — Henry Dаvid Thоreаu — Pаrt 1 оf 3Work: Walden; or, Life in the Woods , “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (1854)Historical context: Thoreau questions conformity and material distractions while advocating deliberate living and personal independence.I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.[Editorial note: a portion of the original chapter has been omitted.]Our life is frittered away by detail.