Question

In what ways could a former slave make a more persuasive messenger for abolition that a person who has never enslaved?

Answer 1

In the ways that people such as Fredrick Douglas can send speeches to people and tell them to end slaverly. So people who doesn’t like slaverly people can end. So hope that help

Answer 2

The personal experience with slavery would allow for true stories of the experience rather than philosophical or moral arguments.

People would be more likely to believe a person’s first-hand accounts of abuses.

A former slave taking up such a cause could prove to people that free slaves could be capable citizens.