Compare how Lincoln’s position on slavery changed from when he delivered the
“Second Inaugural Address” to his position in “The Emancipation Proclamation.”

Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.

What is the meaning of the figurative language in this passage?

There was a gate with blood on it at the plantation where Douglass lived.

Douglass had to go through great pain during his escape from slavery.

Being enslaved was the worst experience imaginable.

Douglass was spared the worst kinds of physical torture that other enslaved people faced.anation: