leave the slaves to their masters. Garrison then accused him as an "apostate" and the two parted. Douglass worker closely with the small Liberty Party which called for the total elimination of slavery, from 1848 to the 1850's. However, on occasion he supported the Free Soil and Republican parties, which only called to prevent to the spread of slavery. Douglass soon came to decline Garrison's philosophy on slavery. Douglass' house in Rochester was a station in the "Underground Railroad," a group of people who helped runaway slaves escape to Canada. He approved of John Brown's advocacy of armed forces to help slaves escape. But he opposed Brown's plan to attack the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1859. Yet when they captured Brown in the assault, Douglass was accused as an accomplice. He had to flee to Canada to avoid being arrested and tried for treason. Douglass later returned in 1860 when the confusion had diminished. During the Civil War said that the true cause of the war was slavery and that blacks should into the Union army. His own sons were of the first volunteers for the all black regiment formed in Massachusetts. In 1865 there were 300,000 blacks in the Union army. In 1865-1877, he campaigned for black vote and full civil rights for the freedmen. He was a leading Republican advocate, and held several federal posts. Douglass was minister to Haiti from 1889 to 1891. He died on February 29, 1895. He was honored as the nation's greatest black leader. ...
