![]() ![]() A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. ![]() HE who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. ORATION, DELIVERED IN CORINTHIAN HALL, ROCHESTER, BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JULY 5TH, 1852. As always, the supporting JSTOR material is free to read and download. ![]() Below is the speech, annotated with relevant scholarship that gives context to the historical moment in which Douglass spoke: the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin a few months prior, and the violence of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law and Missouri Compromise. ![]()
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