ASSIGNMENT #5 A LECTURE ON THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT

Nieves Micolta

Class: POL 166

Professor: Barry Murdaco

Lehman College

A LECTURE ON THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT

1855 BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born in Maryland and escaped bondage at the age of 20 years old. 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.

He referred as anti-slavery as a combination of moral, religious and political forces which has long been, and is now, operating and co-operating  for the abolition of slavery in this country, and throughout the world. 

My understanding about this passage is, that slavery was the way of treated people as a property that also were owned ,sold, and bought like an object. Also these people didn’t have the right to express themselves as we do now. Moreover, the anti- slavery movement was created to help abolitionist.

I chose this lecture about anti- slavery because I agree that everybody should be treated equally and not like trash.