W.E.B Dubois View of Equality vs Frederick Douglass View of Equality

Even the men who are in the Northern States who are black are not free. Douglass points out that “blacks are easily likely to face the death penalty for one crime, where white people would face punishment if they did the crime twice,” This, according to Douglass is slavery. This can be seen even today in our news and society. Many blacks are targeted and attacked solely based on their appearance, and experience many micro-aggressions. Douglass also says, “Do not need to argue about what is wrong with robbing these Negros from their liberty keep them ignorant from their relations to other men?” This speech truly emphasizes the inhumane, cruelty, and injustice associated with the treatment of blacks in America. While the whites look at the 4th of July as a celebratory to their lives and freedom, not everyone is truly free. It is important for Douglass to show that while many associate this holiday with prosperity and positive attributes, the blacks face slavery, prejudices, and unequal treatments day-to-day. “What is inhumane cannot be divine”, says Douglass. Later on in the speech, he talks

In “Learning to Read and Write” he says, “After that, when I met with any boy who I knew could write, I would tell him I could write as well as he” (Douglass 130). Douglass was able to teach himself to read and write and after that he felt somewhat free because he was able to tell others that he can also read and write. He could prove to other people that just because he was a slave it did not mean that he was not able to read and write just like the other kids in the

Throughout history, there have been many black-rights activists that use their power of speaking to fight injustice and promote equality. One of those activists, who fought for equality with the power of his words, was Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He had a vision of the roles of African Americans during and after the war to ensure they receive citizenship and freedom. Frederick Douglass faced many tribulations throughout his life and that only made his speeches for equality and justice that much more powerful because he was a victim of injustice. Douglass believed that if African Americans want to have citizenship and be seen as equals, they must prove that they deserve it. In order to prove that African Americans deserve citizenship, Douglass encouraged them to enlist and join the fight for equality. Although there were obstacles in seeing his vision implemented Douglass stood his ground and fought until his vision becomes reality.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass both were African Americans who were faced with the facts of slavery and the injustice of it all. The difference between the two of them is the fact that one of them and the power and ?freedom? to go out and do something about what they believe is the right way. Mr. Douglass had

After the Civil War granting African Americans their freedom, Frederick Douglass became a political activist against the institution of slavery. He combined his efforts with John Brown, an abolitionist, engaging in strong minded debates in figuring out whether the U.S Constitution was proslavery, antislavery, created for the well being of all men or only white men. Douglass gained the knowledge of political reform and how to go about movements, in his case, abolition movements, and later on assisting in women rights movements. He learned that being looked upon in politics, as an intelligent and well-respected individual without pursuing force would be the best way to gain his victory. His goal was to persuade the American public opinion against slavery, while praising democratic freedom and progression of American principles, reaching audiences of all sexes and races. He also pointed out

Frederick Douglass is a remarkable figure when it comes to describe and expose the outcome of the oppression in the black race since memorable times seen and experienced through the centuries expressed in slavery, racism and mistreat. In “The Meaning of Fourth of July for the Negro”, Douglass states the values of not only a race but a human being in his speech, by allowing himself to represent and describe the meaning behind it by using juxtaposition, irony and imagery to fight

In this essay you will read about numerous similarities as well as differences between these two gentlemen. Their names are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. But before I explain the differences between these two gentlemen, I will give you a more in depth background on each of them. This information that I will provide for you will give you a clearer thought on how they were raised and their beliefs.

Hugh Auld discussed with his wife that teaching a slave to read a write is dangerous " If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell "(Douglas 20) meaning if you teach a slave to read and write he will be more knowledgeable and more curious. Learning would make the slaves more aware of the injustice happening to them and they may potentially challenge the masters. Keeping the slaves ignorant would prevent them from forming ideas. Hugh believed that since it would spoil the slave it would leave the slave to no good use anymore to his master. After some reading and some thinking Douglas finally noticed how bad he and the other slaves were being treated, how bad he was enslaved, and how the other slaves didn't see what Douglass saw " It had even me a view on my wretched condition without a remedy ... In moments of agony I envied my fellow-slavessllaves for their stupidity " ( Douglass 24 ) The slaveholders wanted to keep the slaves ignorant so that they would stay slaves and only focus in the plantation other than what'swhats happening in real life. This was dehumanizing because the slave didn't know they were being treated less than

Born into a life of slavery, Frederick Douglass overcame a boatload of obstacles in his very accomplished life. While a slave he was able to learn how to read and write, which was the most significant accomplishment in his life. This was significant, not only because it was forbidden for a slave to read due to the slaveholders wanting to keep them ignorant to preserve slavery, but because it was the starting point for Frederick to think more freely and more profound. Frederick Douglass then taught other slaves how to read and write because he believed and taught “Once you learn to read you will be forever free” (Frederick Douglass). This man was an astonishing individual who

Frederick Douglass led a very tough life within slavery. He was beaten and abused and traded over and over again. Booker T. Washington led a better life than most slaves. He lived with his family and he was freed when he was just a

Douglass taught himself on how to read and write at the age of 7. “And escaped from the north at the age of 21 and changed his name to Douglass. He became involved in the abolitionist movement and became an agent of the massachusetts anti-slavery society by 1851.”(nps.gov) Later on in life he was asked if he wanted to write a speech for the 4th of july. To talk about what it was like to be a slave. But later on into the speech he goes

Douglass’s main purpose in writing the first two chapters of his narrative is to inform and argue against the institution of slavery. Frederick Douglass begins the narrative by explaining that he doesn’t know how old he is because it is common for many slave holders to keep their slaves as ignorant as possible. Douglass reveals the brutality of slavery in his narrative by informing his audience about events like the death of his mother, the beating his aunt Hester received and the ignorance slave masters wanted to have within the slave population. In his narrative, Douglass exposes the wrongness in slavery by telling his personal experiences. This was different from other publications at the time since they were often written by northern abolitionists who had never been exposed to slavery but they were still fighting against the practice of slavery.

His slave owner’s wife began to teach him and instruct him and treated Douglass like a human being. But it all changed when she realizes it was dangerous to teach slaves how to read and write and soon became more violent than her own husband. Although the mistress stopped with the lessons, Douglass did not give up because he wanted more and through many ways he secretly got more knowledge on how to read and write. Douglass had to find other ways to learn because of how America was oppressed by political slavery at that

In the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass finds himself moving to and from different masters in chapters seven through nine. What really stood out about his moving is that during the process, Douglass managed to learn how to read and write proficiently without his slaves owners finding out. At first the wife of Master Hugh’s, was being quite pious but her husband brainwashed her to become a cruel women. Although this happened, Douglass still manages to learn. However, Douglass yearning for reading and writing, grew stronger when he read the book “The Columbian Orator.” Douglass states that, “The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers” (534). This statement marks the beginning of Douglass journey

Frederick Douglass was an early American writer that pushed heavily for personal reform throughout his text, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In his writing, he goes through his personal life and all the hardships that he was confronted with. In the very first chapter of his writing he states, “I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life; and each of these times was very short in duration, and at night” (Douglass 1182). This explains that Douglass was taken away from his mother at a very young age, as most slaves in this time were. This affects Douglass and his mother personally and pushes him to strive for change and freedom among himself and his family. As a slave, Douglass also realizes that he couldn’t pursue the education that he desired to have. Douglass quotes, “I did not, when a slave,