Fredrick Douglas

Fredrick Douglass’ Cry for Freedom

Slavery has played a very big role in the history of the United States. The abolitionist period of the United States is the period when slavery was starting to be questioned in the North and in some of the northern south states. Fredrick Douglass was a very outspoken slave who tried to bring out these unethical ideas and educate people on the idea of how slavery was bad. He was often shut out because the people in the south, were he lived, justified this idea that slavery was right and there was no way that they were changing their mind on that. Fredrick had to fight three main people in the speaking on how slavery was wrong. Fredrick had to put up with the Northerners who did not really know much about slavery, the acceptance that the whole country had with slavery, and the ideal in the south that slavery was not wrong, in fact it was better than the wage system in the north.

Fredrick Douglass had to try and educate the Northerners not only on what was wrong with slavery, but what slavery actually was like in the south. The northerners did not know much about the institution of slavery in the South. So, when Fredrick Douglass was trying to talk about how it needed to be stopped, they really had no idea what he was talking about. The Narrative of his life and the cruelties of slavery really helped out his case in showing the Northerners what slavery were actually in the South. It was not just people owning black slaves and having them work for them. It was much more, like beatings, poor nutrition for many and fear in many of the slaves. The Northerners were not really listening to Fredrick though because they were going through the market revolution in which they could be more than just farmers. Here, they could specialize in one business, then buy what ever they needed in the market, or trade for it with their products. With the market and also industrialization occurring in the north, the people were more concerned with...