1. Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass

2. Lincoln
16th President of the United States and considered to be the greatest president by many
Supported the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery throughout the United States

3. Lincoln
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slavers who were in the states that were not in the Union
Believed that the nation would become either all slave or all free

4. Lincoln’s Famous Quote
“ A nation divided against itself cannot stand.”

5. Douglass
escaped a slave plantation and afterwards became the leader of the abolitionist movement (3rd attempt was successful)
became the counter-example of a slaveholder’s argument: slaves did not have the intellectual capacity to function as an independent American citizen

6. Douglass
being able to deliver such a speech was an astonishment and gratitude on his part
ask yourself this question: “What is the fourth of July to you?”

7. Famous Quotes
“I would write with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom.”