Dates
The year that Douglass delivered this speech.
What is 1857?
The man who applied British abolitionism to American slavery.
Who is Garrison?
The place Douglass references for its emancipation.
What are the British West Indies?
A phrase Douglass repeats several times, referring to people debating the value of emancipation.
What is "will it pay?"
The measure of morality.
What is money?
The amount of time since Douglass previously spoke in the same town.
What is 10 years (and 3 days)?
President of the American Abolition Society.
Who is Austin Steward?
The place many American abolition beliefs came from.
What is England?
Douglass says that he can love this man, if he loves the slave.
What is an enemy?
A man who never values freedom for himself will never value it for these people.
What are others?
The date of emancipation in the British West Indies.
What is August 1st?
The man who lived and labored among the emancipated people.
Who is Henry Highland Garnet?
The government here is mostly exercised in schemes and cheats but seems honest to all.
What is Washington?
Douglass states that, as an African American, he does not fear this.
What is the world's judgment?
Abolition followed close on the heels of this.
What is insurrection?
The number of years between emancipation in the British West Indies and when Douglass presented this speech.
What is 23 years?
This man was a member of the British Parliament and aided in the abolition movement.
Who is William Wilberforce?
The place Douglass said that people "fled in darkening trains" to.
What is Canada?
A quote said by "the great Redeemer" that Douglass says is true of individual men, societies, and nations of men.
What is "men do not live by bread alone"?
The whole history of the progress of human liberty has been born of this.
What is struggle?
Douglass claimed that this amount of months after the Fugitive Slave Bill passed were the gloomiest of his life.
What is 6 months?
He objected to celebrating holidays created by the people who despised them.
Who is Dr. J. M'Cune Smith?
The place that has great churches and wealth but is also the victim of a dreadful disease.
What is New York?
Douglass can appreciate that this statement, which the farmers so highly regard, is a benefactor.
What is "that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before"?
The vital, animating, and all-controlling power of the British Abolition movement.
What is religion?