The Liberator

it is connected with one of my quotes "Everything looked clean" (Douglass 67). At the point when Fredrick Douglass touches base in Bedford he is astonished at how individuals were not living in destitution, completely dressed and the place was spotless. It was unordinary for him to see such a spotless situation since he had been so used to St. Michaels and Baltimore where it was poverty stricken. The last picture is of two hands holding each other, one is dark, and the other is white. After…

journalist in the anti-slavery movement is he help lead the abolitionist movement in writing and action. His leadership was based on his paternal status in the abolitionist movement. The abolitionist speakers kept Garrison’s earliest copies of The Liberator as relics. He protested the US government when a slave was done wrong. Finally he founded the American Antislavery Society witch focused on achieving abolition. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the…

Scripture, specifically the Gospels, are examined to understand the personhood and mission of “Christ the Liberator”. For example, there is special attention to how Jesus lived (simply and some would say in poverty himself) and who he interacted with and how (e.g. outcasts, sinners, and the marginalized in that context). There is also heavy emphasis on Jesus’s…

After reading the first few chapters of The Multiplier Effect (Wiseman, 2013), and reflecting on the focus of being a liberator in my school, I have realized that making mistakes is acceptable if you can learn from them. No one is without mistakes or accidents, but if you can become aware of a potential personal weakness in a certain area or a character trait that can be focused upon, the mistake becomes an experience to understand yourself in the future. When I reflect on mistakes I have…

Ronald Allen’s book, Thinking Theologically: The Preacher as Theologian, allowed me to understand why pastors preach and look at their congregations the way they do. To be frank, I never thought about a pastor as a theologian. It is clear pastors have their own specific theology but I did not pay attention to the way pastors brought their theology in the way they preach and observe their congregation and world. I have always been a participant seeking my own personal theology with God, without…

Frederick Douglass is one of the most famous, influential men in American history. He was born into slavery in February of 1818 in the state of Maryland. When Douglass was seven years old, he was taken from his birthplace to the home of his master, Captain Aaron Anthony. At his new home with Captain Thomas Auld, he realized the true humiliation of slavery. He was whipped, starved, and left outside in the dead of winter with nothing but a potato sack. In the spring of 1825, eight-year-old…

Some of the first anti-slavery societies in America were predominantly founded by Quakers in the 1770’s and 1780’s, insisting on the maxim of moral reciprocity found in the Bible: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.” In New England, New York, and Pennsylvania, where the movement was most influential in the early republic, forms of emancipation were adopted. However, because of respect for private property rights, they argued for gradual emancipation and advocated…

The 1800s was not a time period where all Americans were equal. White males held more rights than any other race and gender. To protest against unjust treatment, abolitionists, African Americans, women, and those who wanted to see a change in society and better treatment of all people, organized reform movements to bring awareness to certain issues. During the Second Great Awakening in the 19th century, the reform movements brought about major change for marginalized groups of people. The…

Russian Empire. Furthermore, Alexander II was reluctant to relinquish his absolute power. Combined with the fact that he displayed traits of an autocrat from time to time, particularly after an assassination attempt in 1866, these reasons make ‘Tsar Liberator’ an unsuitable title for him. Instead, a better term to describe Alexander II would be a ‘reforming autocrat.’ While, in many cases, he was genuine in his pursuit of reform, his intentions remained rooted to the perpetuation of the Tsarist…

on Douglass was asked to tell his story at the abolitionist meetings. Eventually he became an anti-slavery lecturer. William Lloyd Garrison was fascinated of Douglass work, that he eventually wrote about Douglass in The Liberator. Meanwhile as more people kept reading The Liberator, Douglass was giving out his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society’s annual convention in Nantucket. Douglass was becoming more and more popular, but this is what he wanted to lecture to people about…