Frederick Douglass Impact On Society

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” How would you like to have to fight for the right to not be owned and worked for nothing at all? Well, this is exactly what Frederick Douglass did. In my opinion, Frederick Douglass made the biggest impact on the freedom of African-Americans.

Frederick Douglass was a slave that ended up escaping captivity. From the moment he was born, he was a slave. As a boy, he would always wonder, why? Why am I less important than them? During this time there were around 1.5 million slaves in South America. Almost all of them never learned to read or write. It was even against the law. Still, Frederick taught himself and became very good at it. He ended up escaping. But, he also kept going back to help others. Back then it was very dangerous to talk in public as an escaped slave. He did it anyway. “With his words as his weapons.”

First of all, Frederick Douglass helped the enslaved escape to the North and taught some to read and write. It’s been estimated that he freed around 400 people. Think about those hundreds of people that went from being owned, worked, and beaten. To the North where they can have their freedom. And, because slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write even though

Back then as an escaped slave speaking out in public was very dangerous. There were people in the North that looked for escaped slaves and would bring them back into the South called slave patrol. He risked his freedom to fight against slavery. Speaking to thousands he says things like, "Is this the land your Fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win? Is this the earth whereon they moved? Are these the graves they slumber in?" In this quote, Frederick talks about how we fought for our freedom. But do we really have it? So much for “the land of the free” if millions don't have it because of the color of their skin. This is what Frederick fought for in his