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Frederick Douglass And Booker T Washington Compare And Contrast

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Trust. According to the General Social Survey, trust in the United States for other people has fallen from its height of 48% in 1984 to a measly 30% in 2014. Nevertheless, renowned author Ernest Hemingway has a piece of advice pertaining towards trust. “The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them.” Many individuals find trust to be a tender subject. When asked to fall into another’s arms as a sign of trust, they cannot perform the task. Frederick Douglass and Booker Taliaferro Washington were no strangers to trust. They had the choice to trust their mothers. They had the choice to trust their masters. And they had the choice to trust their brethren, who shared the same yoke of slavery and discrimination as they did. Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington were both up to their chests in the fight towards the end to racial discrimination and the institution of slavery. Born into nothing, Frederick Douglass was practically an orphan. He had no knowledge of his father, whether he be black or white, rich …show more content…

It all depends on the effort put into the relationship, both on their side and on our side. For Frederick Douglass, his mother was practically a stranger, simply a distant acquaintance. In his first autobiography, we see the following pertaining to his relationship with his mother. “I never saw my mother, to know her as such, more than four or five times in my life…She would lie down with me, and get me to sleep, but long before I waked she was gone…Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.” (Douglass, p 2) Imagine that. Never knowing your mother except as a stranger in the night. Trust, as outline in the introduction, is an important part of any relationship, and there was no way for it to be present in this unfortunate

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