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Compare And Contrast Sojourner Truth And Frederick Douglass

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Both Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth use the evils of slavery in each of their stories, I believe that Sojourner Truth used more persuasive evidence in her text to relate to the evils of slavery that was happening to her. Throughout time both Frederick and Sojourner were abused and hurt during the time of slavery. Slavery was not the a good time for the blacks because many whites were very racist. Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist and author. He was born as a slave, Douglass escaped slavery at the age of 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist. He wrote autobiographies that are considered important doings as the slave narrative tradition. For 16 years he was editing an influential black newspaper and he achieved worldwide fame as an inspiring and persuasive speaker and writer. In many of his speeches, he strongly was against slavery and racism.
In Douglass's short excerpt from his story he explains that his master separated him from his mother soon after his birth. The tragedy of the separation showed that Douglass did not have many feelings toward his mother. Douglass shares many parts of his Narrative to demonstrating how a slave is created. To some readers in Douglass’s time it may have seemed natural for blacks to be kept as slaves. Douglass demonstrated this point of …show more content…

Sojourner was born a slave in New York, she had three of her children sold away from her. After she escaped slavery, Truth embraced religion and became involved in moral reform and abolitionist work. Truth was a powerful speaker and her legacy of feminism and racial equality is still talked about today. “In Sojourner Truth’s speech that she gave to the Women’s Convention of 1851, she speaks on the inequalities that women and blacks faced at that time in America. I will attempt to analyze the way she uses rhetorical strategies in order to achieve a successful and powerful delivery of her

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