How Did Frederick Douglass Contribute To The American Dream

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Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was an African American born in slavery in 1818 in Talbot County MD, he devoted his work to inspire blacks to believe that color need not to be a permanent influence on their dreams whilst reminding whites to be mindful and support equal access to the American dream. Douglass, thought himself how to read and at the age of sixteen rebelled against his slave master for humiliating, tormenting and all the beatings he received whilst with the slave master. There were whispers of him being the son of a slave master who was white and cruel to him and never talked about him. Douglas in search of the truth about himself never had a relationship with his mother because he was taken from her mom as an infant and …show more content…

Throughout his stay with the slave master, he witnessed hardships, women been whipped, people's throat being slashed and seeing colored people treated inhumane. In 1836 Fredrick learnt a trade that helped him save money to free himself. After escaping from slavery he joined the abolitionist movement, he became a social reformer, abolitionist, a good public speaker, writer, and a statesman. Fredrick became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his antislavery writings. In his time, he was described by abolitionists as a living counter example to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. In 1845 Douglass decided to write about himself and the experiences he had gone through, he sold more than thirty thousand copies and became the best seller, and continued on to give lectures all over the world. Douglas had a friend called William Lloyd Garrison an abolitionist, a journalist and a social reformer, he worked with him for some time until there was a misunderstanding between them. Therefore re-evaluating his way of thinking about slavery and as a reformer. In the early 1850, Douglas's close relationship with William Lloyd Garrison

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