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1. Frederick Douglass - born a slave, he endured all the ugly realities of a life in bondage. Yet he self-educated himself to a very high level. As his education improved, he began to constantly buck the system in a variety of ways including teaching other slaves to read through the teaching of Sunday School. In a little more than a decade as a free man, he rose to become one of the most prominent members of the abolition movement. As a licensed preacher, he developed into one of the era’s great orators and he was tireless in using his talents to bring attention to the injustice which was American chattel slavery.

2 . Although it is completely illogical, ahistorical and unfair to natural justice to judge the people of the past by today’s morals, it is also very hard not to. If we merely judge them by the morals of their own times, that doesn’t tell us very much. If we don’t judge them morally at all, we let off the likes of Hitler and Stalin in a welter of moral relativism. I think it's completely appropriate to critique those figures from the past whose morals fall short of our own values, as well as celebrating those who questioned, critiqued or resisted the systems and beliefs of their time.