lincoln a true hero

Does everybody deserve freedom? During the 1860s thought 1870 this question was challenged to try to give freedom to every race this movement was call the abolishment movement. Some big names and leaders who fought for freedom for everyone was Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and African Americans all throughout the US. The main reason for the abolishment movement was abolish slavery through the entire US and gain freedom and rights to all races. In the speech “Frederick Douglass cuts through the Lincoln Myth to consider the man” given by

Frederick Douglass on April 14, 1876 in Washington D.C. at the unveiling ceremony of a monument of Lincoln. In Frederick Douglass’s speech is about how everyone believed that Lincoln was this perfect saint but Douglass showed how he was not perfect but he still was a great man. In Frederick Douglass’s “Frederick Douglass cuts through the Lincoln myth to consider man.” He inspires citizens during the anti-slavery movement by using rhetorical devices of pathos and repetition.

Frederick Douglass was a great friend of Lincoln through a majority of Lincoln’s life and knew the truth behind Lincoln and his views on slavery. Frederick Douglass’s speech on Lincoln was wrote to remember Lincoln during the unveiling ceremony of a monument of Lincoln called “Emancipation Memorial”. Douglass strongly spoke on how Lincoln was no Saint and how Lincoln himself did not abolish slavery but Douglass also showed how Lincoln played a huge part in abolishing slavery and how great of a man he truly was. Lincoln was an incredible man with great intensions to always try and do the right thing. “Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he w...

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...rying to say was we were all Lincoln’s children and he was like a father to us both blacks and whites. Lincoln was like a father to the U.S. like father’s he was trying to show us what was right and wrong that is why Douglass repeats children so many times through his speech.

In Frederick Douglass’s “Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider Man,” he inspires citizens during the Anti-Slavery Movement by using rhetorical devices pathos and repetition The Abolishment movement was very important during its time, slaves were treated unfairly and had no right as human beings this was stopped because of the abolishment movement. The Abolishment movement did legally ban slavery even though it was not immediate it did eventually rid slavery in the U.S. Today thanks to the Abolishment movement and its leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.