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Compare And Contrast Washington And Frederick Douglass

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“Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave,” said Harriet Tubman. Both Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas experienced the horrible life of slavery. The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas tells the story of a slave who experienced many hardships, while Up From Slavery tells of a slave who was fortunate to be freed as a young boy. Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas lived in the 1800’s. Douglas was born forty years before Washington. Despite the age difference they managed to meet each other later in life. These two black American men are famous for their successes in life. They were both slaves. However, they differ in their relationships to their families, how they gained freedom, and how they …show more content…

Washington had a black mother and a white father. He did not know for sure who his father was, but he knew that he was a white man. Unlike some other slaves who had their mothers taken away at an early age, his mother was allowed to stay with him. He had a brother and a sister who also stayed with him and his mother. Fredrick Douglas had a black mother and white father as well. He did not know who his father was but there was a rumor that his master was his father. Fredrick’s mother was taken away from him when he was very young. She was moved to another planation nearby. He only saw his mother a few times in his life and they were usually at night. He had no other siblings that he knew of. In addition, Booker T. Washington and Fredrick Douglas gained their freedom in different ways. Washington, who was born in 1858 or 1859 (he did not know), was freed around age seven by the Emancipation Proclamation. After he was freed, he and his family moved to a small house in West Virginia. His family was poor so Washington worked in the coal mines to support

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Signs of Progress Among the Negroes, by Booker T, Washington. The Century Magazine, January 1900. New York City, New York. 11 pages. Reviewed by Jozlyn Clark Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community.

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Fredrick Douglass was born Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey, in Maryland in 1818 to Harriet Bailey. There were two mysteries surrounding Fredrick’s early life: one, the actual date of his birth and two, the identity of his father. Even though his father has not been confirmed, it is believed that Douglass’ father was Harriet’s slave master. At the very tender age of ten, Douglass’ mother died suddenly. Shortly after her death, Fredrick was sold to Hugh Auld, where he began working on his plantation.

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He was a strong believer in blacks continuing work in agriculture, which is the same work they had been doing their whole lives. Washington believed that in order for African Americans to gain their rights, they needed

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Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass both have interesting ways of writing. There are similarities and differences in their writing. They each have their own personal preference toward their style, tone, and perspective. Each story was a remembrance of boyhood written in first person. As evident, Twain’s story takes place as a boy in a town on the Mississippi River.

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Lincoln and Douglass were self-made, self-educated, and ambitious, and each rose to success from humble backgrounds. Douglass, of course, was an escaped slave. Douglass certainly and Lincoln most likely detested slavery from his youngest days. But Lincoln from his young manhood was a consummate politician devoted to compromise, consensus-building, moderation and indirection. Douglass was a reformer who spoke and wrote eloquently and with passion for the abolition of slavery

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Furthermore, one of Douglass and X similarities is that they were both held captive. For example, Douglass was a slave for the Hugh’s family for seven years. On the other hand, X was a prisoner in Charlestown Prison. Following this, the second similarity was

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Abolitionism was a well-known movement around the time of the Civil War and its aim was to put an end to slavery. The people of the early nineteenth century viewed the elimination of slavery in numerous ways. Some fought against the end of slavery, some appeared to mildly support the cause and yet others wholeheartedly supported the ending of slavery until their dying day. Charles Finney was a religious leader who promoted social reforms such as the abolition of slavery. He also fought for equality in education for women as well as for African Americans.

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Achieving African American Equality Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois were two of the most influential advocates for African American equality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Blatty, 1). Although both men ultimately had the same goal, their methods for achieving African American equality were remarkably different. To begin, the men had conflicting ideas about what constituted as African American equality. Booker T. Washington argued that the accumulation of wealth and the ability to prove that Blacks were productive members of society would be the mark of true equality for African Americans (Painter, 155).

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Fredrick Douglass discussed his move from slavery to freedom. On September 1838 he escaped the chains and became a free man. According to Douglass he was escaping: “the wretchedness

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Both King and Douglass were advocating for the same thing: their constitutional sanction of freedom. Both men, in their respective letters touch upon parallel thoughts and beliefs that revolve around the much bigger topic of racial inequality and discrimination. Both men were discriminated against and they talk about their experiences and plight in their very distinctive yet special styles. Born in the year 1817, in an era of open and unashamed slave trade, Frederick Douglass’s story begins as a serf to Mrs. Hugh in the city of Maryland.

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Fredrick Douglass does not actually tell us exactly how he escaped in detail to the North from slavery because he does not want to give any slave masters information. Which makes sense because, he would not like to be giving slave owners an upper hand on slaves that do try to escape. One of the most important factors to Fredrick Douglass gaining his freedom is when he moved to Baltimore. I believe that is where his quest for freedom began.

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Washington. He was an educated African American, born in slavery, and saw as the leader of the black folk. His main agenda was to promote the policy of submission since black folk could only survive in it. They wanted political power, civil liberties, higher education, accumulation of wealth, and consolidation of the south, and for their values and beliefs, Washington publicly shamed them. Th black folk further internalized the propaganda that slavery was justified, they neglected their own education, and their future depended mainly on their own efforts.

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Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were both born 120 years apart. They were also killed ten days apart in the same month, years apart of course. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were one of the biggest influences on Slavery and Civil Rights. As well as being great leaders during their times. Both of these men were similar, but also had their differences.

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Douglas and Washington both wrote books. Frederick Douglas wrote two books both of which were auto biographies. Booker T. Washington wrote many books and articles. He wrote autobiographies, about other African-Americans, his observations of Europe, education, and other hot topics of the era. Both been wrote books but, Booker T. Washington wrote much more than Frederick Douglas.

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In the minds of many Southerners, without slavery, the South and America as a whole, wouldn’t continue to be a growing economic powerhouse, and would lose its culture as a nation where White Christian, males, ruled society. For many, there was no South, no America, without slavery. History has shown time and time again that power corrupts. To hold onto their power, slave owners made sure their slaves were kept uneducated.

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