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Essay Galaxy - Frederick Douglass and Slavery
Frederick Douglass and Slavery
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and
influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his
writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of his
books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to perceive a
clear image of slavery through Douglass' words. His writings explain the effects
of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free
blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War,
and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed.
As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was
drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to
this stating the teaching of Douglass to read would, "Spoil the best n....
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