Clash of thee ethnicities

In Alexis De Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America he looks from an outside perspective in America developing some very interesting observations. One observation that Tocqueville made was that as the white population mixed with the Native American and Africans Americans unfortunately the population of the whites has pushed down the other two ethnic groups beneath them. Looking from and inside perspective Fredrick Douglass and Zitkala-Sa show just how correct Tocqueville was with the white’s prejudices against the Native Americans and the African Americans.
In Classic American Autobiographies Fredrick Douglass shares his horrific story of being a slave in the south and the mistreatment he received. In the first chapter of his narrative Fredrick “The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived of the same privilege” (pg241). This is an early indication of how the rest of the narrative develops. This quote shows how African Americans are treated like they are not even human. They are deprived of things so that they know that they are less import...