Does everyone deserve freedom? During the 1860s and 1870s, this issue was contested in an attempt to give freedom to each race. This movement was called the abolition movement. Some of the great names and leaders who fought for freedom for all included Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and African Americans across the United States. The main reason for the abolitionist movement was to abolish slavery throughout the United States and achieve freedom and rights for all races. In the speech “Frederick Douglass Cuts the Myth of Lincoln to Consider the Man” delivered by Frederick Douglass on April 14, 1876 in Washington DC during the unveiling ceremony of a Lincoln monument. In Frederick Douglass' speech it talks about how everyone believed that Lincoln was this perfect saint, but Douglass showed that he wasn't perfect but he was still a great man. In the work of Frederick Douglass, “Frederick Douglass goes through the myth of Lincoln to consider the man”. He inspired citizens during the anti-slavery movement by using rhetorical devices of pathos and repetition. Frederick Douglass was a great friend of Lincoln for most of his life and knew the truth behind Lincoln and his views on slavery. Frederick Douglass' speech on Lincoln was written in remembrance of Lincoln during the unveiling ceremony of a Lincoln monument called the Emancipation Memorial. Douglass forcefully explained that Lincoln was not a saint and that Lincoln himself did not abolish slavery, but Douglass also showed how Lincoln played a huge role in abolishing slavery and in what a wonderful man he truly was. Lincoln was an incredible man with the great intention of always trying to do the right thing. "Mr. Lincoln seemed late, cold, boring and indifferent; but measuring it by the feeling of his country, a feeling he wanted...... middle of paper...... trying to say that we were all Lincoln's children and that he was like a father to us, black and white. Lincoln was like a father to the United States, like his father, he was trying to show us what was right. and wrong, which is why Douglass repeats the children so many times in his speech In “Frederick Douglass Cuts the Myth of Lincoln to Consider the Man” by Frederick Douglass he inspires citizens during the anti-slavery movement by using processes. pathetic and repetitive rhetoric. The abolition movement was very important in its time, slaves were treated unfairly and had no rights as human beings. This was stopped because of the abolition movement. legally banned slavery although this was not immediate. He finally eliminated slavery in the United States. Today, thanks to the abolitionist movement and its leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass..