Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass
edited by LARRY GARA
In the spring of 1852 Frederick Douglass visited Cincinnati to attend an antislavery convention. Douglass, a former slave, had already gained national renown as a writer, editor, and speaker.1 While in Cincinnati Douglass fre- quently spoke and also took the occasion to carry his message to another town in the area, Harveysburg in Warren County, Ohio, where he addressed a church congregation. In his speech2 Douglass predicted an end to slavery
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