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The excerpt, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” (July 5, 1852), was created by Fredrick Douglas and demonstrates a bad day for people like him in the United States during the whole Civil War era. The Civil War era was tragic and messy. “Political, economic and social problems in the North. About 800,000 Union soldiers are going to be returning from the Civil War and obviously, they spend a lot of their time fighting in the Civil War and now they're coming back home and they are looking for jobs.” (LL, 3/7). The Civil War had many events and some of them were negative and some were positive and helped people. Some people had a rough time; like slaves had a harder time during the Civil War than most people. “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham…There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.” (Douglas). Frederick Douglas was trying to point out that Fourth of July is not a happy day for all people. Some people have endured great suffering during this holiday. Some of this reliance was carried on to the Reconstruction Era to build a new setting for people who had it rough during the Civil War period. Slaves were not involved in this new world yet. During this period African-americans gaining political representation will help African Americans be represented and have their issues helped to be resolved. This will hurt African-Americans because as they gain more political power, it will lead to others wanting to take it away from them.