He is referencing the issue of slavery and the threat of it being outlawed in the United States. This fear was very real for southerners after President Abraham Lincoln was elected president in the election of 1860. Southerners feared that he would outlaw slavery across the United States.
This issue greatly affected the southern states, causing several of them to secede (leave) the US in order to form their own country. This would be called the Confederate State of America and this faction helps spark the Civil War.
They got the idea from Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who believed that mankind, being good by its very nature, would exist in a state of complete social harmony were it not for the corrupting influences of civilization. The people, in this pure state of nature, were absolutely and completely sovereign. They could do no wrong. That’s why you cannot stand against them. To do so would be to stand against goodness itself. ” <span />
Supplies?In order to add a salad bar to a school lunch menu for students with restricted diets, new materials or supplies such as a refrigerator or a bar, would be needed.
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Fredrick Douglass faced all sorts of dangers and conflicts.
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Fredrick's mother died when he was very young. His father was white, and due to his mother's death, he was orphaned. He'd hardly known his mother because they did not live together and she could only visit him at night.
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Slavery. Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery (his mother was a slave, and as for his father, he was most likely his mother's slave owner). Douglass was sent to Baltimore to serve Hugh Auld at age 7.
