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Appendix
The Anti-Slavery Movement
Extracts from a Lecture before Various Anti-Slavery Bodies, in the Winter of 1855
Closing the volume, Douglass surveys the abolitionist movement's growth — from Calhoun's wary respect to Harriet Beecher Stowe's cultural influence — and argues that its power rests not on organizations but on principles every conscience already grants in its own case.
Calhoun and Webster's opposing responses to abolitionismWhy opponents already grant abolitionist principles for themselvesHarriet Beecher Stowe and antislavery literatureThe Fugitive Slave Law's unintended boost to the movement