he spoke out against slavery at in anti-slavery meeting in nantucket, massachusetts, and william lloyd garrison was in attendance. garrison signed him up on the spot as an anti-slavery speaker with a good salary. and douglass with the help of garrison moved his family to a home in massachusetts. over the next several years, he emerged as an electrifying speaker for garrison's massachusetts anti-slavery society. responding to skepticism that someone as eloquent as douglass couldn't possibly have been a slave, douglass published what remains his most famous work, his narrative of the life for frederick douglass, an american slave. made him sography famous in his own time that he had to flee to great britain or otherwise risk eating captured as a fugitive slave. while in england, ireland, and scotland up to 1840 seven he became an international celebrity as an anti-slavery speaker. british supporters bought him out of slavery in 1846 and in 1847, now a free man, returned to the united states. he decided to go to rochester, new york instead of active massachusetts because his supporters had given h

so, for example, in our history, william lloyd garrison to me is a hero. he opposed slavery when it wasn't popular. everybody said andrew jackson had slaves. jefferson. everybody had slaves. so it was accepted. it wasn't a big deal. well, you can argue that but you could also argue who were the extraordinary people who said it was a big deal. who understood even at that time. william lloyd garrison wrote a little newsletter called a liberator for like some 35-some odd years. said lincoln should get all the credit. a great book. it's called "forced into glory." i know you're not supposed to say anything bad about lincoln. the whole point was lincoln kind of got there because of people like garrison who fought in the trenches. who fought for ideas. for so long, lincoln was a politician. lincoln, you know, writes a letter at one point and says, you know, if he can keep the union together and we must keep slavery, he'd settle for that. so, the thing is, lincoln did a great thing in the end. he got there by somebody had ideas and somebody said slavery's wrong.

and the great abolitionist, william lloyd garrison was in attendance. garrison signed him up on the spot as an anti-slavery speaker with a good salary. and douglass, with the help of garrisons anti-slavery organization, moved with his wife and two children to a house , massachusetts. over the next several years, he was known as an electrifying anti-slavery speaker for garrison's anti-slavery society. responding to skepticism that someone as eloquent as douglass could not possibly have been a slave, in 19 -- in 1845, he published his most famous work, the narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave. this made him so famous in his own time, he had to flee to great britain or otherwise risk being captured as a fugitive slaves. while in england, ireland and scotland, douglass became an international celebrity as an anti-slavery speaker. british supporters bought him out of slavery in 1846, and in 1847, douglass returned to the united states as a free man. he decided to go to rochester, new york instead of massachusetts because his british

it did not turnhim into a william lloyd garrison. in 1837, while he's still sitting in the state legislature, he joins with another whig representative to offer a resolution decrying slavery. as bad practice, bad policy and injustice. but he doesn't do more. when he goes to washington as a member of congress, he backs a bill to abolish the slave trade in the district of columbia. before the compromise of 1850. but the bill goes nowhere and lincoln doesn't press on it. so he's opposed to slavery. he's anti-slavery. he's just not what you might call an activist on the subject. that is until 1854. the reason he's not an activist on the subject is because before 1854, he is convinced that slavery is a dying system which is on its own way out. lincoln believes, first of all, that the founders constructed the united states constitution to be an anti-slavery document. not that the constitution abolished slavery, but that the constitution created a system and represented the intentions of founders who believed they had put slavery on the roa