ABSTRACT
Frederick Douglass lived in a great transitional period, and, in his struggle to gain his own freedom, he personified the historic events which took place during that time. His life was so wholly under the public eye that it is impossible to obtain an estimate of the man apart from the history of slavery. Frederick Douglass and Anti-slavery, are almost interchangeable terms. Douglass can hardly be said to have risen to greatness on account of the opportunities which the republic offers to self-made men, and concerning which we are apt to talk with an abundance of self-gratulation. Among the many tokens of respect that continued to come to him from all parts of the country, he cherished none so much as the tribute paid by the gracious esteem in which he was held by the people who had had the best opportunity of knowing him.
