1. Frederick Douglass
... struggle against slavery" (McKissack and McKissack 93). He was one of the abolitionists who made headway "in places where it made a difference" (McKissack and McKissack 94). Frederick Douglass opened people's eyes to slavery through his great oratory. He used the story of his slavery to show everyone what it was really like (Huggins 29). "He dramatized the sights, sounds, emotions of ... the emancipation-" and the welcoming "of black people into American society" (Mackey, Jr. vii). A good part of Frederick Douglass's writings was about self-improvement (Miller 65). His newspaper, "The N...
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