Frederick Douglass Vocabulary

to begin or start

• unabated

• apprehension
• vindication
• commence

the fear or dread of the future

• apt

• apprehension

• unabated
• prudence

the wise handling of practical matters

• console

• chattel
• prudence
• vindication

to keep its full force without decreasing

• unabated
• commence
• precepts
• apt

the public condemnation of something as wrong or evil

• depravity

• compelled
• emancipation
• denunciation

the evidence or proof that someone's claim is correct

• vindication
• console
• depravity
• emancipation

moral corruption

• denunciation

• depravity

• apt
• precepts

an item of personal, movable property; slave

• chattel
• depravity
• console
• apprehension

rules establishing standards of conduct

• commence

• emancipation
• compelled
• precepts

forced to do something

• console

• compelled

• commence
• chattel