An eloquent and passionate defender of colonial rights, Henry's major argument and strength in motivating the colonists is his belief in freedom and autonomy (the ability to decide for oneself what is best.) In his mind, he feels this strength to be the overriding one for the colonists. As with the framers of the Declaration of Independence, Henry stated the British had violated natural, God-given law--specifically, the human right of freedom. Because the British had broken this natural law, it logically followed that God would side with the colonists, not the British.
An eloquent and passionate defender of colonial rights, Henry's major argument and strength in motivating the colonists is his belief in freedom and autonomy (the ability to decide for oneself what is best.) In his mind, he feels this strength to be the overriding one for the colonists.
Douglass regarded the Civil War as the fight to end slavery, but like many free blacks he urged President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves as a means of insuring that slavery would never again exist in the United States. ... Through a merger in 1851, Douglass created a new newspaper entitled Frederick Douglass' Paper.
Women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses.
