8. This means that as bad as slavery was it was helping to run the country and nobody wanted a revolt if they freed all the slaves.
9. Early abolitionists worked with state legislatures to get Northern states to individually outlaw slavery. They also worked by publishing books, newspapers, and pamphlets. They had conferences, speeches, conventions, and founded charities for slaves.
10. Garrison was stern and uncompromising and he was harsh and he published newspapers, writing. Douglass was more of orator. Douglass was as flexibly practical as Garrison was stubbornly principled. Garrison often seemed more interested in his own righteousness than the substance of slavery evil itself. Douglass increasingly looked to politics to end slavery and were pacifistic.
