Engage your AP Language students with a powerful study of abolitionist rhetoric through Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1852) and Richard Allen’s “To Those Who Keep Slaves and Approve the Practice” (1794). This lesson helps students analyze how rhetorical situation, claims, evidence, and argument strategies work together in two landmark abolitionist texts—then challenges them to compare how context shapes rhetoric across time. What’s Included: Teacher and studen