How Does The Life Of Frederick Douglass Affect Society

The story of Frederick Douglass has not been lost as we begin a new era and concerns about social change seem widespread. The implication of his message was covering periods of society which change was hard feature to the social landscape. Frederick Douglass was slave who utilized linguistic literature to get his message across the nation and also devoted for the abolition movement. Frederick Douglass was born in 1818, the son of a Maryland slave and an unknown white father. He was separated from his mother immediately after his birth and sent to Baltimore to work for a shipwright. He experienced hardship that many slaves went through. “As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with

Douglass became representative for many slaves because after Emancipation Proclamation he was more involved in fight for the right of black to vote and inequality in public place. “if the negro knows enough to fight for his country he knows enough to vote; if he knows enough to pay taxes for the support of the government, he knows enough to vote; if he knows as much when sober, as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote.” (Frederick Douglass) Also, Douglass contributed on helping fugitive slaves reach safely to further north for their freedom. The narrative stated that Douglass life and thought was speaking profoundly to the meaning of black in America, as well as the calling to resist oppression. “From this time I understood the words abolition and abolitionist, and always drew near when that word was spoken, expecting to hear something of importance to myself and fellow-slaves.” Douglass struggled getting help from the government enforcing safeguard the freedman’s rights. He continued to fight for equality for all society and spread his message to the youth before his death, “less than a month before his death, when a young black man solicited his advice to an African American just starting out in the world, Douglass replied without hesitation: ‘Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!’’’ However, he provided works which continue to attract the future

He became the only African American to attend women’s right convention at New York. Douglass argued that he could not accept right to vote as black man, if woman could not clam to vote as well. “I must say that I do not see how anyone can pretend that there is the same urgency in giving the ballot to women as to the negro. With us, the matter is a question of life and death. It is a matter of existence, at least in fifteen states of the Union. When women, because they are women, are hunted down through the cities of New York and New Orleans; when they are dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp-posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed out upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and outrage at every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt down over their heads; when their children are not allowed to enter schools; then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.” (Douglass) Beside that, Douglass believed that standing for women’s right is act of decency. “in respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and express our conviction that all political rights which it is expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for women. All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman;