A Lecture on the Anti Slavery Movement 1865

A L E C T U R E O N T H E A N T I - S L A V E R Y M O V E M E N T 1 8 5 5 ––––––––––––––––––––– Frederick Douglass ––––––––––––––––––––– Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was born a slave in Maryland and escaped bondage at age 20. As a free black in the North, he became an active abolitionist, traveling the region and using his outstanding skills as a speaker and writer to rally support for the anti-slavery cause. Douglass delivered this address to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in 1855. In the mid- 1800s, many middle-class Northern women worked to end slavery by joining moral reform societies, where they established networks of women and learned political organizing skills. T H I N K T H R O U G H H I S T O R Y : Forming and Supporting Opinions How might a member of the Garrisonians, the anti-Garrisonians, or the Free Soil Party have countered Douglass’s criticisms of their tactics and organizations? 

Ladies and gentlemen, I am not superstitious, but I recognize an arm stronger than any human arm, and an intelligence higher than any human intelligence, guarding and guiding this Anti-Slavery cause, through all the dangers and perils that beset it, and making even auxiliaries of enemies, and confounding all worldly wisdom for its advancement. Let us trust that arm—let us confide in that intelligence—in conducting this movement; and whether it shall be ours to witness the fulfilment of our hopes, the end of American slavery or not, we shall have the tranquil satisfaction of having faithfully adhered to eternal principles of rectitude, and may lay down life in the triumphant faith, that those principles WILL, ULTIMATELY, PREVAIL. Source: 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.

I think this article is talking about Frederick Douglass. When he was born and when he died. He was born in a time where many people didn't even know what it was the light. It was a time of slavery. Where many people had to fight to be free and fight for their rights.
I chose this paragraph because I see that time has really changed from when slavery was and important matter in the past. This article and like it's me on how people have have to fight for what they wanted. It was very hard in those days and this article reminds me of a time when the struggle was real and just like today we have to fight for what we want.