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Essay Archive - Frederick Douglass and Slavery
Frederick Douglass and Slavery
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most distinguished and
influential black leaders of the nineteenth century. Douglass focused his
writings on the harshness and brutality of slavery. He describes in many of
his books accounts of his own experiences as a slave. A reader is able to
perceive a clear image of slavery through Douglass' words. His writings
explain the effects of slavery and the struggle to overthrow it, as well as
the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the
politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the
followed.
As a child, Dougl....
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