Injustice In The Works Of Frederick Douglass And Elizabeth Stanton

Freedom of being who you are and acceptance is something that people with blessing overlook, and people without it strive to attain. Throughout American literature and history, problems of injustice have always been present. Sadly, many just accept the fact they are detested by society and very few know how to fight against it. The community has a way of creating a variety of oppression groups, American Literature being no exception, such as race and gender. Only with the help of these daring, brave authors can society revolutionize, each in their own unique way. Authors Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Stanton provide to American Literature, through their speeches, essays, and writing, therefore allowing the norm-breaking of oppression groups,

Someone who would best understand this struggle of oppression would be escaped slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. Although being from Maryland, where slavery was mild, he says, “... yet I can stand here and relate atrocities which would make your blood to boil at the statement of them.” (Douglass 12). Seven years prior to this speech, he would run away from the south in hopes of getting publicly known by the antislavery people. It would take years until he was finally noticed, but meanwhile he would work as an abolitionist. Through his abuse in slavery, would he gather up the determination to help others going through similar situations. Although he was an abolitionist, he still felt he could reach more people so he decided to become an African American Rights Activist to be able to reach a wider audience and make a bigger

These forms include books, essays, speeches, and articles. Douglass’s literature was very impactful, receiving a magnitude of commentary with controversy. One reaction on the Frederick Douglass Paper positively states, “Judging from the imaginative conception and through editorial method of this first volume, the whole when complete promises to be the largest, most impressive, and comprehensive collection of any black American.” (David 1447). While in the other hand there the negative racism as done by Reverend Peabody, “America has mournful honor of adding a new department to the literature of civilization - the autobiographies of escaped slaves.” (Franklin 298). This altercation led to Frederick Douglass’s expunging from the pages of American Literary History in the 1940s and 1950s. Even after all the attention, Douglass would keep a diplomatic demeanor which would be admired by many. This is what is said to have made Frederick Douglass strategy in activism so effective. In addition, when asked what African Americans would do if emancipated and he responded with, “... do nothing with them (African Americans); mind your business, and let them mind theirs.” (“Civil War Era”). Only with Douglass’s peaceful protest would the United States President, Abraham Lincoln decide on following through with the Emancipation Proclamation. Douglass would respond in the