who was william lloyd garrison, where did they meet and this concept of northern prejudice? prof. dford: garrison was the editor and publisher of the liberator, which is in antislavery newspaper. he was also associated with the president actually. cannot remember for the life of me which antislavery society it was for the moment. it was in boston. he meets douglass fairly soon after douglass arrives in the north and he hears him speak. he invites him to this convention. douglass is eventually hired. garrison becomes a mentor to douglass until they have a falling out. i think it has to do not just with the fact douglass is by any means necessary kind of guy in terms of the ending of slavery and equality for black people but douglass is willing to work in the system. he is willing to look at political institutions to see if they might be helpful in terms of ending slavery. garrison is not. garrison believes the constitution is a proslavery document. douglass is not thinking in that direction at that time. i think also the two clash because garrison remembers douglass as someone he ha

you have william lloyd garrison, publishing the liberator at that time.ings are heating up. so before this period, southerners agreed slavery was a necessary evil. they recognize it as people but it was a necessary evil. i the 1830's and by the time the book is published in 1845, they are calling slavery a positive good. the abolitionists are wishing that much harder against that kind of nonsense. douglass's book exposes the hardships of slavery in a way no one had before. it is important to come from him because he is someone who has witnessed it firsthand. >> the narrative of the life of frederick douglass is published. what was its immediate impact at that time? prof. medford: it was explosive. he was able to sell quite a few copies immediately by the time of the civil war in about 15 years. 30,000 copies had been sold. there were nine additions it had gone through. the north was all about it. the south was furious about it because they felt douglass had exaggerated what slavery was about. it showed white northerners what slavery really was. they could

debt and then in 1830 so after she's already become famous in these ways she met a man named william lloyd garrison and of you will know that william lloyd garrison was probably the most important white abolitionist in the boston area, and he had specifically to boston to build on the foundation that had been laid by black abolitionists like walker and mariah stewart and the paul family. there was a sort of thriving of black abolitionists who at the african meeting house, which is right behind the state house. and so garrison moved here essentially with idea to start a newspaper that he would call the liberator and to try to convert white bostonians to abolitionism. it's so important for us to remember that to be an abolition honest at that point in history was to be a radical and most white were very comfortable with the existence of slavery many who opposed it for various reasons still not think it should be abolished. they maybe thought it should end grabbed julie or maybe there should be time limits on it or maybe only certain kinds of people should be enslaved. but there wasn't. there are very

because of this protection, william lloyd garrison believes the document was proslavery and publicly burned it because it contains the 3/5 compromise, prohibition against sending international slave trade for 20 years, the cause giving congress power to suppress insurrections, slave uprisings and the fugitive slave laws. frederick douglass on the other hand, argued that the constitution was an antislavery document because of among other things, the words even slavery could nowhere be found in it. furthermore, the constitution's language, we the people, not we the white people. not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, the high or low, but we the people. not the horses, sheep, swine and wheelbarrows, but we the people. the human inhabitants and if are people, they are included in the benefits for which the nd constitution of america was ordained and established. lincoln cited with douglas. maybe the word slave nor slavery is to be found in the constitution, nor the word property even. any connection with language alluding to slave or slavery and that whatever that instrum

because of this protection, william lloyd garrison believed the constitu was a pro-slavery document and publicly burned it because. it contained the 3/5 compromise. their prohibition ending international slave trade 20 years. the clause giving congress power to suppress insurrections i.e. slave uprisings. and the fugitive slave clause. frederick douglass, on the other hand, argued that the constitution was an anti-slavery document because other among other things, the word slave and slavery could nowhere be in it. furthermore, the constitution's language as we the people, not we the white people, not even we the citizens, not we, the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low but we the people, not we the horses and swine and wheelbarrows, but we the people, we the human inhabitants. and if -- are people, they are included in the benefits for which the constitution of america was ordained and established. lincoln sided with douglass. neither the word slave nor slavery is to be found in the constitution, nor the word property. even in any connection with language, alluding the thi