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Appendix
The Slavery Party
Extract from a Speech Delivered before the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in New York, May 1853
Douglass maps the five objects of what he calls the pro-slavery party's national strategy — suppressing anti-slavery speech, expelling free Black people, and extending slavery into new territory — and argues that the movement's opponents cannot ultimately win.
The five objects of the ‘slavery party’The 1850 Compromise as its foundationNorthern black laws and the colonization movementWhy suppressing anti-slavery speech cannot succeed