A Lecture On The Anti-Slavery Movement

 

 

                 There are four different types of anti-slavery principal divisions. The first one is the Garrisonians , or the American anti-slavery society. This division leaves it up to the slaves and their masters to fight their own battles. The second one is the anti-garrisonians, or the American and foreign anti-slavery society. "It does not aim to abolish the union, but aims to avail itself of the means afforded by the union to abolish slavery." The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture by Frederick Douglass Before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society by Frederick Douglass (Rochester, NY: Lee, Mann, and Co., 1855), pp. 3–4, 28–40, 44. The third one is the free soil party, or the political abolitionist. "It aims to limit and denationalize slavery, and to relieve the Federal Government from all responsibility for slavery." It's motto which is "Slavery Local-Liberty National." The fourth one is The Liberty party, or Gerrit Smith School of abolitionists. " It makes a clean sweep of slavery everywhere. It denies that slavery is, or can be legalized. It denies that the Constitution of the United States is a pro-slavery instrument, and asserts the power and duty of the Federal Government to abolish slavery in every State of the Union. Strictly speaking, I say this is the only party in the country which is an abolition party.…The Liberty Party, by its position and doctrines, and by its antecedents, is pledged to continue the struggle while a bondman in his chains remains to weep." The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture by Frederick Douglass Before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society by Frederick Douglass (Rochester, NY: Lee, Mann, and Co., 1855), pp. 3–4, 28–40, 44.

 

         From reading this article, I can tell that Frederick Douglas was a very smart man. He came from being a slave to an anti-slavery speaker. In this article he described the four different divisions of anti -slavery which I found very interesting. It is good to know that one of these divisions 'The liberty party' made the complete sweep of slavery everywhere. I was always taught that slavery was abolished in the North before it was abolished in the south. It seems like more people in the North had more sympathy for how these slaves were being treated by their masters than those in the South.