Reference no: EM133098555

History does not furnish an example of emancipation under conditions less friendly tothe emancipated class than this American example. Liberty came to the freedmen of theUnited States not in mercy, but in wrath [anger], not by moral choice but by militarynecessity, not by the generous action of the people among whom they were to live, andwhose good-will was essential to the success of the measure, but by strangers,foreigners, invaders, trespassers, aliens, and enemies. The very manner of theiremancipation invited to the heads of the freedmen the bitterest hostility of race and class.They were hated because they had been slaves, hated because they were now free, andhated because of those who had freed them. Nothing was to have been expected otherthan what has happened, and he is a poor student of the human heart who does not seethat the old master class would naturally employ every power and means in their reach tomake the great measure of emancipation unsuccessful and utterly odious [hateful].Source: Frederick Douglass. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Park Publishing Co., 18812 According to this document, what did Frederick Douglass identify as a problem with the waythe United States government emancipated the slaves?