Compare And Contrast Frederick Douglass And Lincoln

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Why Frederick became famous he became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863. Fredrick Douglass had escaped from slavery while Lincoln was trying to free them. Both had grown up in poverty; they were largely self-taught; in a generation they were two of the greatest; in the century of the self-made man both. Douglass and Lincoln did have different goals as well that they believed were priorities. Lincoln and Douglass originally shared. Lincoln and Douglass were self-made, self-educated, and ambitious, and each rose to success. Douglass, of course,