the other part of the answer is that the garrison onions, although not care us and himself to his credit, biggest syrian means-- care sony is had strict morals and they said to purchase a slaves freedom of speech complicit with slavery pure dope paid slaveowners. douglas' answer to that was, thank you very much. i will take my freedom. better than not having it. >> one last thing before we end, douglas is telling and in so many ways douglas' story is america's a story. what should we take from this in this current moment we find ourselves? what does this story teach us? >> you didn't tell me you're going to ask alan. history is never over. history doesn't only hand cycles, it has terrible surprises and it would you think you have won a victory, watch out. he experienced that his life over and over. he's one of those rare reformers, especially radical reformers who lives to see his cause triumphed in his 40s and frankly almost beyond his belief as late as 1858 and 59 abolitionists had reason to believe they would live to see slavery destroyed and a new constitution crashed it out of it, n