Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was one of the earliest leaders of the abolitionist group who eventually appeared and fought against slavery within the United States. Frederick Douglass, Being an earlier slave, had ringside arguments on the politics of slavery, but he obtained his independence when Anne Murray purchased a free black sailor’s papers required for his escape. His personal experience as a slave afterward provided a persuasive argument that supported in movements against slavery. This experience made Frederick Douglass an autobiographical narrative “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” which was printed in 1845, not merely a participant in the field of anti-slave narrative writings, but also in the genre of political rhetoric and/or protest writing.
Much of what he writes down is against the slavery, directly or by supposing, of the arguments and views of the supporters of slavery. For instance, supporters of slavery would often identify that slaves themselves often admired the benevolence of their masters. Douglass disproves this at first by illustrating that, “He segues from the wealth of Colonel Lloyd, to the number of Col. Lloyd’s slaves, to the fact that because of this great number, Col. Lloyd did not identify one of his won slaves when he met him on the road, and the slave, not knowing he was talking to his master, answered Col. Lloyd’s questions honestly, telling him that he was mistreated, and in consequence was separated from his family and sold into Georgia (Douglass, 2002, p.46-47). Douglass then proceeds from the particular incident to the general situation, by disagreeing the slavery-supporters’ argument by describing “The rate of the detectives on behalf of the masters has had the effect to ascertain among the slaves the maxim that a still tongue makes an intelligent head” (Douglass, 2002, p.110-111). Douglass provides the clarification stronger and more persuasive by stating the example that confirms it before it, and obtains past at least some of his audiences’ rational “defenses” by proceeding without any interruption into the argument of why slaves admire their masters without providing his booklover where he’s moving until he’s there.
Mr. Douglass continued to provide the conditions which had first directed to his emergence in public. From the time he escapes he was taken under the support of the Abolitionist Movement Society, and his respectful labors had been consecrated in the grounds of his fellow workers. He had stimulated an influence which was increasing a day by day, and enlarging the tide that he expected would soon strike down the rectangle of slavery and its supporters. He had to exercise all potential acts to reveal himself from the search of those who was looking for his blood; for, as he powerfully expressed himself, “there is no mark on the huge domains over which influence the star-spangled sign where the slave is safe; go west, go east, go north, go south, he is still uncovered to the blood hounds that may perhaps let loose in opposition to him; there is no valley so deep no mountain so in height no spot so blessed, but the man- user may enter and tear his target from his retreat.” (Gomes, 2005, p.77)
As he had forever covered the name of his master when lecturing, and similarly changed his own, and in the meantime concealed all the facts of his escape, and the place where he had been born, doubts were elevated by the slaveholders, who were greatly disturbed by his existence in public that he was a fraud. To work against this, he at distance solved to write his biography, which he therefore did, but this only revealed him motionless more to the temper of his persecutors.
In this master piece, he said it was not in contradiction of the Free Church as a Church he meant his views his prepossessions were in her support, but anti to her coalition with the annoyance of slavery. In short, he finished by calling on the people of the Free Church to put their pressure in the reason of the unfortunate slave, and provided that abolitionist movement had already emerged between them, specifically in the area of north, which he expected would however, have the cause of rescinding the act of the General Assembly, and influence them to providing back the price. Mr. Frederick Douglass took his seat accompanied by extended applause.

References
Frederick Douglass. (2002). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, pp. 1-188.

Douglass, Frederick; Gomes, Peter J.; Stephens, Gregory. (2005). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Signet Classics, pp.77.