Before he was even ten years of age, following the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, Washington and his family moved to Malden, Virginia, where Washington’s stepfather secures work at a salt-furnace. His story began on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. On the other hand, Washington was peacefully suggesting for a slow assimilation into the white society. His heart is hardened towards the whites as he is broken, beaten, and battered time and time again.

However, as he grows older he begins to resist the tyranny of slavery more forcefully. I would sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head in a sack for carrying corn and feet out.” (Douglass 27) At age seven, Douglass was sent to work for a ship carpenter in Baltimore, only to return to the plantation eight years later. was very similar to that of the other slave children.’ (Douglass 26) ‘I had no bed. Such a tragic upbringing was very common amongst the slaves. However, he did not experience a unique childhood. As a child, Douglass witnessed brutal whippings of various slaves- male and female, old and young- upon the plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. On one hand, Douglass was blowing a horn for a radical assailment to kill slavery and raze the flagrant bigots. However, despite the common effect, there were large differences in their methods of influence.įirstly, their primary messages were unalike. The works of these two authors effectively portray the affects of slavery even to this day.

Two of the most prominent voices that fought for racial equality were those of Frederick Douglass and Booker T.

Trying to hear the cries echoed by millions of blacks and lifted by those who experienced slavery allows us to try and understand the nightmares they were unrighteously forced to endure. For hundreds of years, slavery threw millions of innocet Americans into lives of misery, and even after abolishment it continues to infest our country with extreme detriment. Since the establishment of our great nation, slavery has always contradicted our beliefs of equality.

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