What is the meaning of asylum in the following passage?
" O ye that loved mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe, Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. - Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind."

options:

1)
insanity

2)
protection from danger

3)
valuable

4)
freedom