Frederick Douglass:

What Wilberforce was endeavoring to win from the British Senate by his magic eloquence, the Slaves themselves were endeavoring to gain by outbreaks and violence. The combined action of one and the other wrought out the final result. While one showed that slavery was wrong, the other showed that it was dangerous as well as wrong.

— Frederick Douglass Modern

Abolitionist, orator

Context

Speech at the 23rd West India Emancipation celebration at Canandaigua, New York

Date / Period

1857

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