Similarities Between Frederick Douglass And Elizabeth Keockley

Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, and The Crafts all rebelled against slavery differently, causing them to have different experiences while escaping slavery. The reader gets a different point of view from each person helping them better understand the life of slavery, and their plan to get away. Elizabeth Keckley's experience is very different from the others while they escaped slavery she bought her freedom, so she was no longer a slave, legally. Her point of view is very different, she tells her own story of her own life and how she bought her freedom. In Preface From Behind The Scenes By Elizabeth Keckley it States " I have often been asked to write my life (1) ... Where I was born a slave and the child of a slave" In Chapter 1: Where

This shows she's not afraid of hard work, and that she was dedicated to buying her freedom. What I learned from Elizabeth Keckley is slavery was hard, especially when you're trying to get out of slavery, but she paid for her slavery, proving she is a very strong person and can handle a lot of things. The Crafts' experience is different from the others because they wanted to escape together, and they escaped differently from the others while Douglass escaped and didn't tell anyone his escape plan, The Crafts told their whole entire process of escaping. In the story "The Great Escape From Slavery Of Ellen and William Craft" It states " Ellen, a quadroon with very fair skin, disguised herself as a young white cotton planter traveling with his slave(William). It was William who came up with the scheme to hide (39)... Married couple... William cut Ellen's hair to neck length (41)... Ellen purchased tickets to Savannah ... But the wave of fear soon passed (42)" This tells us how William convinced Ellen to disguise herself as a slave owner and escape, this is showing how instead of buying their slavery they escaped by outsmarting the slave

Fredrick Douglass's experience stood out from the others because it shows how it was after and before, yet he doesn't tell his experience escaping slavery. In the source "A Narrative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave" It states " At the end of each week, pour the reward of my toil into the purse of my master (29) ... He believed me entitled to the whole of them... My discontent grew upon me. I was ever on the lookout for means of escape; and, finding no direct means... to make my escape... I left my chains, and succeeded in reaching New York without the slightest interruption of any kind. How I did so,-what means I adopted,-what direction I traveled, and by what mode of conveyance, -1 must leave unexplained, for the reason before mentioned (33)... I was again seized with a feeling of great insecurity and loneliness... Loneliness overcame me... Without friends(34)" These pieces of evidence tell us that he wanted to escape because his mater was taking all of his earnings, yet once he escaped he didn't tell what he did or where he went once he escaped, but once he was free he became a fugitive and he realized that he was lonely he has left all of his