Frederick Douglass said that everyone was fighting for unity; unity in which everyone pulled together as a whole (Russell 247). Frederick Douglass wanted to fix up the "holes" in our country.
Frederick Douglass was the man who changed society's views of slavery. He knew that he would have to take on the "white world" if he wanted to achieve anything (Russell 280). Douglass wanted to accomplish something very big. "He wanted to unite the entire antislavery world" (Russell .
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If Mr. Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, a powerful impetus would be given to it, and a stunning blow at the same time inflicted on northern prejudice against a colored complexion. (Mackey, Jr. 11).
Frederick Douglass had constantly thought that slavery was dishonest and evil (McKissack and McKissack 74). Through his great oratory and writings, he triggered the Abolitionist Movement and turned many heads (Russell 13). "Douglass never rested in his 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 how it felt in slavery's chains" (Abdul-Jabbar and Steinberg 88). Even people that were unsupportive to the abolitionist movement changed their views after listening to Douglass (Miller 34). "He was compelled to speak for everyone he left behind in slavery, the abused and tortured and murdered" (Abdul-Jabbar and Steinberg 89). Frederick Douglass "left a deep impression on his audience" (McKissack and McKissack 80).
