Frederick Douglass, though born into slavery was taught how to read, and when he escaped to the north he wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. He was not born with right of freedom with all have today in this country. Frederick fated was decided by people that so called “owned” him. His works were some of the influential texts from the American Transcendental movement. Transcendentalism a system of philosophy, especially that of Emerson, that emphasizes intuition as a means to knowledge or the importance of the search for the divine.
Frederick Douglas was born at a time when slavery was allowed to thrive in the south of the United States, but at present time has our country as a whole TABLE to transcend it past. No, truly has only been reduced because racism will likely always be around and we can hope is an education of the past can teach them otherwise. Frederick Douglass was TABLE to transcend his situation as a slave because of Mrs.. Laud who taught him how to read at the age of 12. Though they did not finish because Mr..
Laud put a stop to it, but by then his was TABLE to read three and four letter words. As a slave for the Lauds he was TABLE to get his hands on book entitled “The Columbian Orator’ and with that he truly transcended his situation. “What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights. ” Frederick Douglass was talking about Sheridan a former slave from “The Columbian Orator”. From Sheridan experiences in the book he was TABLE to form his opinion of his enslavers calling them “wicked” and ‘Workers”.
Slavery brought inhumane treatment in Frederick Douglass book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave he talks about the treatment he and many others had to endure. From the excerpt he tells of forced labor of many hours and a lack of clothing for kid. Though there is much worse, Mr.. Serer who he wrote about was a sadist. A profane swear and cruel man, he would whip the slaves from sunrise to sunset. Though abruptly coming to an end with his death. The worst of his treatment was from Edward Covey, a poor farmer who had a reputation as a “slave-breaker. He whipped Douglass regularly who was at a time sixteen years old Douglass was nearly broken psychologically by his ordeal under Covey, but when he finally rebelled against the beatings and fought back. After winning a physical confrontation Douglass was never attacked by Edward. Frederick Douglass left the south with his clever escape plan and met with the abolitionists. He first escaped with the help of his wife Merry providing him a sailor suit and a free seaman providing identification papers so he can escape to the north. When he arrived he wrote “l have Often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil.
And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the quick round of blood,’ I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: ‘l felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions. ‘ Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil. Frederick Douglass was overjoyed at last he was free, he finally had his freedom. “l prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. This quote means that you shouldn’t just trust fated, but instead take it in your own hands. Finally there was more he soon married Anne Merry who helped him escape and they settee up house to live in. Frederick Douglass was subscribed to William Lloyd Garrison’s weekly journal The Liberator. In 1841 at a meeting of the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society Douglass was unexpectedly invited to speak.
After he told his story, he was encouraged to become an anti-slavery lecturer. Douglass was inspired by Garrison and later said that “no face and form ever impressed me with such sentiments as did those of William Lloyd Garrison. Garrison was likewise impressed with Douglass and wrote of him in The Liberator. Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society’s annual convention in Nantucket. Then at 23 years old, Douglass conquered his nervousness and gave an eloquent speech about his rough life as a slave, his first of many.
Today we don’t have civil right movement like we a past nor is there a split in America like in the civil war, but instead have been traded down the country is spilt on the two political parties of democrats and there is still racism. This country has come a long way only through the hardship of its people fighting for what they believe in. Despite the fear that the information might endanger his freedom, Douglass published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written By Himself in the year 1845.
Frederick Douglass became an anti-slavery speaker and became more and more famous among the states, and with that came more trouble. His past owner the Lauds were claiming that Frederick Douglass was there “property. ” For his own safety he went on a speaking tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Afterwards Frederick Douglass published the first issue of the North Star, a four-page weekly, out of Rochester, New York. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.
He conferred with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and recruited northern blacks for the Union Army. After the War he fought for the rights of women and African Americans alike. Women won’t get the vote till 1 920, but African Americans won’t truly have their freedom till the civil rights movement of the sass’s and sass’s. “No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last ending the other end fastened about his own neck. ” Another one of Frederick Douglass great quote . Saying that slavery had bound the south in the same way that they had bound the blacks.
Frederick Douglass transcends slavery and freedom he tries to help any group that does not have equal rights, because he believed everyone was equal. The United States government transcended when it came to making the law , but not when it came into enforcing it until much later. For example the 13th,14th, and 15th amendment equalized rights between blacks and whites, but not really laws like Calm Crow and cases like Please v. Ferguson. Though it is much better than slavery which was only few decades back.
The United States wouldn’t change it decision until much later with Brown v. DOE, where they previously said that separated was equal . Flannel F-redbrick Douglass would be part of the change that would forever change this county the end of slavery. With his influence he was TABLE to increase support of anti-slavery movement with the help of the abolitionist. As well as, spread the word of the injustices of slavery and how inhumane the act was. He has transcended far not in only words, but in spirit too.
