Great American Debates: Frederick Douglass vs. William Lloyd Garrison

10 November 2018

How should the abolition movement look? How should opponents of slavery view the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and American government as a whole? Two former allies charted different intellectual courses in response to these questions, as each worked to end the blight that slavery was on the America of their times.

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Suggested Readings

• Documents and Debates, Vol. 1: Ch. 12, “The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?” documents A, B, C, D, E, and F
• To the Public, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison
• On the Constitution and the Union, 1832, William Lloyd Garrison
• Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention, 1838, William Lloyd Garrison
• Address to the Slaves of the United States, 1843, William Lloyd Garrison
• The American Union, 1845, William Lloyd Garrison
• The Constitution and Slavery, 1849, Frederick Douglass
• “What to the Slave in the Fourth of July?,” 1851, Frederick Douglass
• Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, 1857, Frederick Douglass

Scholars

• Christopher Burkett, Ashland University
• Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire
• Lucas Morel, Washington and Lee University

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