Anca Vlasopolos
Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature. Immigrant. Writer. Potter. Ardent environmentalist.
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What to an Immigrant Is the Fourth of July (opens the original)
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A nation born out of a revulsion against monarchy and its oppressions is today celebrating its 250 years. While the ideals of its founders, beautifully articulated in The Declaration of Independence and intelligently laid out in its Constitution, began with the phrase WE THE PEOPLE, the U.S. was nevertheless not an unstained nation, as Frederick Douglass so eloquently observed in his masterly “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July.” This republic, which, as Benjamin Franklin foresaw, would requi
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