tivated Douglass and convinced him of the required dedication to the cause. However, it was Douglass` speech on Nantucket Island in 1841 that captured Garrison's attention as verified in his remark, "There stood one, in physical proportion and stature commanding and exact-in natural eloquence a prodigy" (Garrison 145). As Garrison took Douglass under his wing, he quickly developed high rankings with many of the national black leaders, including Wendell Phillips whom was considered to be one of the "high priests and major figures on the national scene" (Lampe 109). The nature of the Garrisonian abolitionist movement was that of moral suasion and a negative attitude towards constitutional law and the uses of politics (Lampe 227). From this, spawned disagreement over the utility of politics: where Douglass saw "political action and constitutional law as practical, necessary vehicles for emancipation" and "politics rather than philosophy, war rather than peace, that would decide the fate of abolitionism" (Lampe 66). After Douglass` departure from the Garrisonians, his determination for African Americans to find freedom and deciding the means by which it might be obtained grew stronger. As Burke stated in his book Frederick Douglass: Crusading Orator for Human Rights, "His ability to give expression to the promise of America-while showing, with great force and clarity, how much the white-ruled nation, by enslaving blacks, had veered from that promise-accounted for his dominant position among black abolitionists-a position buoyed by his prestige among sympathizers in the larger white community" (Burke 348). His consideration of the Constitution in the speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," not as a pro-slavery document as Garrison believed it to be, but rather as a disclaimer to that view and an eviction of blame on the American society.
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