Differences Between Douglass And Harriet Tubman

Wasn’t America always the “Land of the free”? Doesn’t every single citizen of the United States have the inalienable right of “Freedom of Speech”? These are needed questions because these statements did not stand true for African Americans back in the time of slavery. For over 200 years slavery had been a huge function in America. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, John Brown and Harriet Tubman had to use different techniques to further the overall message that slavery needed to end and that it was not in any shape or form justifiable to treat an entire African American race like they were lesser than or caged up animals. Nevertheless, slaves put them through intolerable actions slave owners and white people put African Americans through

In the narrative that Frederick Douglass wrote he shows his point of view about how slavery changed people as in the narrative, he wrote that at first his new mistress, Sophia Auld was “a woman of the kindest heart and finest feelings.” but, throughout the narrative, she gets that “fatal poison” which Douglass says the fatal poison she develops is the “irresponsible power , and soon commenced its infernal work”.This means that the power of being a slave owner got into her head and she became obsessed with it. Douglass also used antithesis so that the reader can see the contrast between how Sophia Auld was before and after she became a slave owner. Douglass explains the antithesis in the narrative when he says “That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.”This helped show people that slavery did not only become injurious to slaves; as it also became injurious to slave owners

For example the speech delivered by Sojourner Truth at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio Sojourner Truth kept saying “Ain’t I a Woman?” and giving scenarios that black women are forced to go through that a white woman has the privilege of not going through like when Truth says “I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief.” This shows one way on how abolitionists used public speech to justify against slavery and it also worked to make the case against slavery because it helped other former slaves or abolitionists come out and speak against slavery, which convinced some people to become abolitionists as