Why the history of Antislavery is horribly important.
Abolitionists were furious and the Antislavery campaign received tremendous new support.
While delivering an Antislavery speech, Isaac was stabbed,
and he ultimately succumbed to his wounds three years later, in 1857.
Douglass, a former slave and an Antislavery speaker and writer,
gained a circulation of over 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
With sales of 300,000 in the first year, the book exerted an influence equaled by few other novels in history,
helping to solidify both pro- and Antislavery sentiment.
When Abraham Lincoln was
elected president a year later on an Antislavery platform(without winning a single state below the Mason-Dixon Line),
many in the South saw that as the last straw.
As an Antislavery Whig who was making his way to the Republican
Party in the mid-1850s, Lincoln believed that their xenophobia threatened the nation's founding principles- the very principles that led him to oppose slavery.