A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. HE who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. ORATION, DELIVERED IN CORINTHIAN HALL, ROCHESTER, BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JULY 5TH, 1852. As always, the supporting JSTOR material is free to read and download. Below is the speech, annotated with relevant scholarship that gives context to the historical moment in which Douglass spoke: the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin a few months prior, and the violence of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and Missouri Compromise.
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