1. Frederick Douglass
... 's right to liberty. He was born with it your fathers held it to be a self-evident truth" (Douglass Speeches 6-7). He frequently eluded to the Constitution's statement that all men were created equal, and that this statement would never even attempt to become truth until slavery was abolished. "Men do not hold their slaves by any tender tie," Douglass also said in Massachusetts ... Civil War (1861-1865), Douglass helped recruit African Americans for the Union Army. He discussed the problems of slavery with President Abraham Lincoln several times. On September 22, 1862 Lincoln issued a pr...
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