It was a vast and variegated assemblage, composed of persons from all sections of the North, and may be said to have formed a new departure in the history of forces organized to resist the growing and aggressive demands of slavery and the slave power.
Reflecting on the 1848 Free-Soil Convention, Douglass describes its significance as a new political force against slavery.
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