My Bondage And My Freedom Frederick Douglass Language Analysis Video
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This led me to seek out a microfilm reel of Western Citizen, an anti-slavery newspaper published in Chicago in the s, and its successor paper, Free West, which they had at the Chicago History Museum. Like most s Chicago papers, the Citizen was thin on local news.
There was some new data about Graceland residents such as L. Freer, James H. Rather a rattlesnake than a man with a prayer book under his arm.
It was, as Douglass speeches usually were, a really dynamite speech. As near as I can find, the Dec 1, issue of Free West is the only time the speech has been published. There are some great pull quotes. Give it Florida to-day, and it will want Texas to-morrow. Give it Texas to-morrow, and it will want California the day after. Learn more here it California, and it will demand the Isles of the Caribbean Sea.
Give it these, and it will demand the whole continent. Give it this, and it will demand the whole world. So, a bit of background for the speech itself: inanti-slavery and abolitionist activists in Chicago were badly rattled by the Fugitive Slave Act, which required authorities in non-slave states to help slave catchers.
It was dangerous even for free people of color, as enslavers could claim pretty much anybody as a runaway and the law was generally going to be on their side.
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There were both pro and anti slavery members of both major political parties — the democrats and the whigs — but the anti-slavery voices always seemed to end up capitulating to the slave power, so there was a broad push throughout the s for a new party that would take a tougher stance. Zebina Eastman served as the secretary. Reported by L. North and A. Van Zant Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Slavery has been sometimes called a peculiar institution — our peculiar institution — an institution peculiar to the South. I think no name so well befits it as peculiar.
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It is peculiar in that it can only exist by destroying the rights of some, and abridging the rights of others. It is peculiar in the laws designed to protect it. One peculiarity is, that the testimony of a slave may not be taken against his Douglasx, or any white man; peculiar in that one human being cannot line illegible respects.]
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