Frederick Douglass Controversial Speech Essay

As a fugitive slave and anabolitionist, he worked with all his ability and intelligence to achieve his ambition in finding the way of the liberty for his colored people and reduced the racial situation in the North. During 1842, he and other prominent speakers traveled throughout Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island to help defeat a measure which gave voting rights to poor whites but denied them to blacks. In Rhode Island, he began to recollect of old friends and worked at home and abroad to gain the support for Douglass’s battle against American slavery. In the spring of the year 1843, he accompanied with other abolitionist agents, who were in the American Anti-Slavery Society to travel on tours of New England and in some of the Middle …show more content…
For nearly two years, Douglass traveled and gave his lectures about slavery throughout the British Isles and also spoke out in favor of Irish independence in Ireland. In the summer of 1846, Douglass and Mr. Garrison traveled around England as a powerful team of antislavery lecturers. In Scotland, they were involved in a campaign against the Free Church of Scotland. In August 1846, Douglass’s most controversial speech was The World Temperance Convention which was held in London. In 184, he decided to go to England and had the opportunity to speak to English audiences to gain support for the American antislavery movement because the English abolition movement was still very strong after a gradual emancipation of freedom in 1938. In the fall of 1846, Douglass was ready to return to United States. Over his travel, prominent people welcomed him to their homes anywhere he went. With his reputation at stake, Douglass decided to publish the story'' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'' with 5,000 copies in May 1845 even though that could lead to his arrest as a fugitive slave. However, two friends purchased his freedom. On December 5, 1846,Douglass got the free paper after Mr.Hugh Auld received $711.66 in