DID YOU KNOW THAT?

On this day in history, December 1, 1850, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech in Rochester, New York, entitled "the Nature of Slavery."

 Douglass described the various methods to make someone a slave for life. These methods were commonly used by slave owners.

 During the speech Douglass said, "It's first aim is to destroy all sense of high moral and religious responsibility. It reduces man to a machine and cuts him off from his Maker. It hides, from him, the laws of God, and leaves him to grope his way from time to eternity in the dark. And it leaves him under the arbitrary and despotic control of frail, depraved, and sinful men."