Analysis Of Freedom Rider Frederick Douglass

Freedom rider Frederick Douglass was a Social reformer and an abolitionist. He was a slave who stayed under his owner’s law. However, when he learned how to read and write Frederick Douglas opposition to slavery began to shape. To farther educate himself he read newspapers and did political writing and literature as much as possible. After he gained a lot of knowledge, an African American woman helped him escape from slavery. Throughout his life he was affiliated in civil rights movement. He helped other blacks escape from slavery and wrote many famous American literatures in the process. The speech “What to the slave is the Fourth of July? By Frederick Douglas shovels depth into the American Government racial injustices of the 1800’s. Frederick …show more content…

He begins with the internal slave trade where he explicates the internal working of slavery. He explains the horrendous affect slave trafficking had on many slave families. After his first section, he continues with his second which is the effect religion has on slavery. Frederick Douglass explains that religion is not used properly and mainly used negatively, and clarifies that slave owners and religious people use gospel to justify slavery. Throughout his speech freedom rider Frederick Douglass effectively argues that the Fourth of July is not a righteous holiday for slaves through the use of religion, and the …show more content…

The freedom rider reveals that every state is involved in slave trafficking. He begins with how slaves were kidnapped from Africa, “men hunted down and, without a moment’s warning, hurried away in chains and consigned to slavery and excruciating torture.”(Douglass, 118). This shows that Africans were hunted down like animals and stripped off from there God given rights while being separated from their loved ones as well as facing the brutal state of mind; in addition, they were used as human stock to import money in the states. In fact, every owner traded slaves like goods, and held them in varies institutions for sell. Even though, the declaration of independence has some similar aspects of the constitution, according to Frederick Douglas black men did not have rights, there humanity was taken away, and the law did not apply to them. In spite of that, there is no reason for a slave to celebrate the Fourth of July. Although every citizen is supposed to be equal and celebrate the Fourth of July with happiness, it’s difficult for slaves to be a part of the celebration because throughout history there humanity has been taking away as well as their God given