The three eras of Masons could be identified as: First, Medieval stone workers who built defense works for kings; Second, revolutionary political dissidents who met in secret to plot against kings; Third, after France's Revolution, unspecified influences of French infidelity, Jacobins, and Illuminati, though not of cognizance to the general membership.
In 1842, Longfellow expressed his public support for abolishing slavery by publishing a collection, Poems on Slavery, which was reprinted by The New England Anti-Slavery Association.
Douglass continued: "I finally found that change of heart which comes by 'casting all one's care' upon God, and by having faith in Jesus Christ, as the Redeemer, Friend, and Savior of those who diligently seek him. After this, I saw the world in a new light ... I loved all mankind -- slaveholders not excepted; though I abhorred slavery more than ever ... I gathered scattered pages of the Bible from the filthy street gutters, and washed and dried them, that ... I might get a word or two of wisdom from them."
Socialist tactics included infiltration of western countries and identifying groups with grievances: ethnically, economically, racially, or religiously.
These groups were then divided into victims and oppressors, "haves" and "have nots," and organized to protest. Agitators would escalate the protests into violent, bloody riots, attacking government buildings.
