Frederick Douglass contradicted everything white people thought about blacks by the way he conducted himself in front of a large crowed and by the way he survived on his own. Frederic Douglass was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery in the US during the decades prior to the civil war. A brilliant speaker, Douglas was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of …showed first 75 words of 1391 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1391 total…ederic proved that black people could learn to do everything that white people do without be beaten. Bibliography: 1. Life and Times of Frederick Douglas. New York. Collier Books, 1962 2. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave 3. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: early years 1817-1849. New York, International Publishers. 4. Jon Rabotean, the Invinsable Institution of Slavery in the Antebellum South 5. W.F Bell, 100 years of growth, libraries of U. N. Texas