The Radical and the Republican
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The Radical and the Republican
This book was a view on slavery between during the Civil War. It shows the different views of the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. These two had very different views at first, but then learned to adapt to each other and eventually became great friends.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. He had a strong hatred toward slavery; not just because he was a slave, but because he thought it to be inhumane and cynical. Douglass knew from a young age that he was an abolitionist. He believed slavery was a disease that needed to be eradicated. He ran away from his slave life in Maryland and headed to New York to be with other abolitionists where he could look into politics. Here Douglass met the Garrisonians whom invited him to join them. He started preaching against slavery their way. They were Pacifists and didn’t believe in fighting, The Republican
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Party was more so the abolitionists, but before Douglass could join them, he had to escape William Lloyd Garrison. Douglass resisted embracing Lincoln and the Republican Party for some time because it took Lincoln eighteen months to proclaim emancipation – way too long for his taste. It also took Douglass a while to accept the constraints democracy had placed on antislavery politics.
Abe Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was the leader of the North. Lincoln didn’t advocate racial equality, but he hated slavery. According to Oakes, Lincoln said he hated slavery three times in his first big antislavery speech at Peoria in 1854. He went on to quote Lincoln, “I have always hated slavery, I think just as much as any Abolitionist” (Oakes 41). As a child, his preacher and parents instilled in him that slavery was wrong and he could not ever remember a time when he didn’t hate slavery. Although Lincoln hated slavery, he never thought of it as being an issue for discussion. In 1854 however, he
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The Radical and the Republican
This book was a view on slavery between during the Civil War. It shows the different views of the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. These two had very different views at first, but then learned to adapt to each other and eventually became great friends.
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. He had a strong hatred toward slavery; not just because he was a slave, but because he thought it to be inhumane and cynical. Douglass knew from a young age that he was an abolitionist. He believed slavery was a disease that needed to be eradicated. He ran away from his slave life in Maryland and headed to New York to be with other abolitionists where he could look into politics. Here Douglass met the Garrisonians whom invited him to join them. He started preaching against slavery their way. They were Pacifists and didn’t believe in fighting, The Republican
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Party was more so the abolitionists, but before Douglass could join them, he had to escape William Lloyd Garrison. Douglass resisted embracing Lincoln and the Republican Party for some time because it took Lincoln eighteen months to proclaim emancipation – way too long for his taste. It also took Douglass a while to accept the constraints democracy had placed on antislavery politics.
Abe Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was the leader of the North. Lincoln didn’t advocate racial equality, but he hated slavery. According to Oakes, Lincoln said he hated slavery three times in his first big antislavery speech at Peoria in 1854. He went on to quote Lincoln, “I have always hated slavery, I think just as much as any Abolitionist” (Oakes 41). As a child, his preacher and parents instilled in him that slavery was wrong and he could not ever remember a time when he didn’t hate slavery. Although Lincoln hated slavery, he never thought of it as being an issue for discussion. In 1854 however, he
Cited: Oakes, James. The radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. Print.