Frederick Douglas The Great Contributor

Frederick Douglas the Great Contributor

In a necessitous society, outstanding, principled, and honorable, people help, to make great changes happen. Those kinds of people deserve recognition and appreciation, for the help that they gave, only thinking about doing the right thing. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, is considered as the right person of bringing inspiration, to make those changes happen. Most of the time we tend to remember especial events, that took place in our community, but not the people behind that event. Frederick Douglass, is the perfect illustration, of great things, that with his help were able to happen, especially the abolition of slavery. He is described as “Frederick Douglas (1818-95) was a prominent American

1). In the web page called History. He was one of the most important figures against slavery. During his time, the United States of America was passing through a difficult situation, were people because is their skin color were called and considered as slaves, for their whole live, to serve of others, and be treated as an animal. In the web page of the National Historic Site District of Columbia, describe his early life, by being born into a slave in Maryland, he hardly knew his mother, who died went he still a child (page 1). His life was no easy from the beginning. But, it does not stop him, to become a respectable and wisdom person, and one of the most important figures in the American history. The proof of this is pointed out by National Historic Site District of Columbia “Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and write in the streets of Baltimore” (National p. 1). Later on, he escaped, from slavery, and started his devotion, of being an anti-slave activist. His life is admirable, because of his contributions. Specially the following ones, serving as an anti-slave activist, women rights activist, and he was a responsible for persuading the American president Abraham Lincoln, of allowing

He believes that women and men should have equally rights on everything, that is no correct because of being born as a woman you do not have less right, than a man. He concluded that equality is not based on sexuality and skin color. Douglass was, one of the most important defenders of women rights, in the 19th century. He participated in the First Women Rights Convention in 1848, together with Elizabet M’ Clintock, a Quaker woman, who believe in equality for women, to work in a business atmosphere. Douglass wrote a passage in his North Star newspaper, point out by The National Historical Park Service New York , about women rights in a political perspective, which begins by illustrating “All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman; and if that government is only just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise” (National Park, p. 1). Douglas together with Elizabeth Cady founded the American Equal Rights Association, “An organization that demanded universal suffrage” (National Park, p. 3). Douglas was, so strong about his principles that he was involved into the women rights until his