FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Introduction

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most differentiated and influential very dark managers of the nineteenth century. Douglass concentrated his writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He recounts in numerous of his publications anecdotes of his own knowledge as a slave. A book reader is adept to see a clear likeness of slavery through Douglass' words. His writings interpret the consequences of slavery and the labor to overthrow it, as well as the status of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the government of the Civil War, and the failed pledge of Reconstruction the followed. Douglass composed an autobiography to display every individual the inhumane edge of slavery. Most persons did not understand of slavery's brutality until Douglass composed about it. Douglass composed about the Civil War to get more persons to assist save and free the slaves. Douglass believed that education was key to African Americans improve their lives. For this reason, it was an early advocate for the desegregation of schools. He stated that inclusion in the education system was a more pressing need for African Americans that political issue such as suffrage. He has also gone well with the editor of a series of newspapers.

Discussion

From the starting of a slave's childhood, experts educate their slaves about God. Slaves were notified that God made whites to be experts and blacks to be slaves. Young children were notified that slavery was for their own protection. This did not make sense to Douglass. He yearned to understand how his expert knew what God thought. Such unsupported lies to Douglass would not be acknowledged without question. This is the reason why literacy was important to Douglass, so that he can find out the answers to such questions. He was able to attain an education by running away from his master's place.

Douglass first unsuccessfully tried to escape from Mr. Freeman, who has rented out its owner, Colonel Lloyd. In 1836, he tried to escape from its new owner, Covey, but failed again. On September 3 , 1838 , Douglass has successfully escaped by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland , dressed in a sailor 's uniform and identification papers bearing provided by a free black seaman. It crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamer "Quaker City" ...