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Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

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Excerpt from Frederick Douglass, Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5th, 1852. The Gilder Lehrman Collection.

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In this famous 1852 speech, Douglass praises religious leaders in England, including Wilberforce, for having opposed slavery on Christian principles. He urges Americans likewise to "assume a favorable, instead of a hostile position towards that [abolitionist] movement."

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