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In an essay, analyze what were the barriers that inhibited northerners from becoming abolitionists and how Frederick Douglass tried to overcome those barriers
any ideas?
already done that 
cannot really find anything 
Read a book, for god's sake!
Here is an introductory lesson in how to gather information in order to write an essay;
Review your class notes and any information you have been given by your tutor/teacher/lecturer
Look at wikipedia
Use the information you found in your notes and wikipedia to point you in the direction of some useful books on the subject
Read relevant sections of those books
Write your essay based on what it says in those books
Here is a start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglas
"Douglass' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845."
References
1. ^ a b Amanda Barker, The Search for Frederick Douglass' Birthplace, 1996. Retrieved on April 18, 2009.
2. ^ ""Frederick Douglass: Talbot County's Native Son", The Historical Society of Talbot County, Maryland". http://www.hstc.org/frederickdouglass.htm.
3. ^ http://www.rense.com/general34/lifeand.htm
4. ^ Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution, New York: HarperCollins, 2006 Pbk, pp. 415-421
5. ^ Slaves in Union-held areas were not covered by this war-measures act.
6. ^ "The Fight For Emancipation". http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/part4.html. Retrieved on April 19 2007.
7. ^ "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglass". Teachingamericanhistory.org. http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39. Retrieved on 2008-09-04.
8. ^ George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984, p. 132
9. ^ Richard H. Pildes, "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon", Constitutional Commentary, Vol.17, 2000, pp.12-13, accessed 10 Mar 2008
10. ^ Frederick Douglas biography at winningthevote.org. Accessed October 3, 2006.
11. ^ "Past Convention Highlights." Republican Convention 2000. CNN/AllPolitics.com. Accessed 2008-07-01.
12. ^ "Official Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Chicago, June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 25, 1888". http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=YSENAAAAIAAJ.
13. ^ "CNN: Think you know your Democratic convention trivia?". http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/dems.convention.trivia/index.html.
14. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
15. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". Douglass Place, Baltimore City. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21. http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=764&COUNTY=Baltimore%20City&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Baltimore%20City.
16. ^ "Prominent Alpha Men". http://www.albany.edu/~aphia/newsite/famousas.html. Retrieved on May 6 2007.
17. ^ Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-963-8.
18. ^ McFeely, 1991, p. 8.
19. ^ Frederick Douglass and Riversmeet: connecting 19th century struggles, Socialist Worker online, December 1 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
That really was tough to find out about...
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With 'any ideas'; he meant: anyone can point me to an essay about this, that I can copy paste pretending its mine, thinking that a teacher wouldn't notice that the superior vocabulary, grammar and syntaxis doesn't match my feeble drafting skill, so I can go about slacking and eating junkfood and playing things that capture my interest more such as stupid games lacking story but compensating with graphics, so I can continue to grow up to be an underachieving drone with no insight in any cultural and historical background.
Yeah this is a "trick question" because you had to read or listen to what your instructor told you was the northern barrier to abolitionism and what Douglass said about it
Low down trick!
I suggest you type a cover page, add a page # footer, then insert 50 blank pages (which will be paginated) and then on the last page get a fat red sharpie and write "[have a cookie, they taste beautiful, just like] you" as a crossword
not really,
i did do some research, i can only think of 1 reason is the economy support by slave in the south.
and for your information, this is not for my cousin, not me . i am studying business administration, dont need to know this 
btw, thx [TI] Sitting Duck, that is really helpful
well another reason is basic assumption that blacks were inferior intellectually and spiritually to whites and therefore could not even understand the American system let alone participate
which Douglass attacked by being smarter than they were
but if that's not what you were taught you won't get points for it
thomas sowell pointed out in a column a while ago that modern textbooks have footnotes and annotations in Frederick Douglass' essays to explain the words to kids "So this escaped slave educated himself beyond the capacity of his freeborn great-grandchildren to understand without a dictionary"
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