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Compare And Contrast Essay On Frederick Douglass

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“You will be free soon as you are twenty-one but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good as good a right to be free as you have.” All of the American were separated from one another. African-Americans were the one who were slaves and were demanded by their masters, African-Americans had no freedom or any rights. The masters of the slaves were the white people, the white people had freedom and had rights. Ain’t I A Woman and Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass show the similarities because these two people want freedom for their life. They both want freedom for all African-American people, they want to have rights. In the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass finds a resolution to get freedom for all the colored people, He then gets freedom for the colored people because he wants everyone to have freedom. …show more content…

It wasn’t correct for Douglass to be taught how to read because he was a slave and slaves were not supposed to have any education. Douglass didn’t know how it felt to have no freedom and white children told him how it felt to have freedom. Slaves weren’t supposed to have books, but nobody knew Douglass had a book and his master didn’t know Douglass knew how to read. When Douglass is growing up, he thinks of when was freedom ever going to end. He didn’t want to live as a slave for the rest of his life, he wanted to have freedom as the white people did. Douglass was tired of how they treat the African-American. He wanted to give a fight to finally have freedom in

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