Frederick Douglass And Freedom Analysis

For Douglass, he believed there were many different routes that one could take to reach freedom and liberty. At first he thought that all that needed to be done was move to the city. “A city slave is almost a freeman compared with a slave on a plantation. He is better fed and clothes, and enjoys privileges altogether unknown to a slave on a plantation. There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty enacted on the plantation.”(30) Later on he realizes that even though city conditions might be better there was still plenty of injustice. He then starts to think that education is the secret to freedom and liberty, and although he tries to learn as much as he can, he doubts whether or …show more content…
It rekindled the few expiring members of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.”(63) Douglass gets away and becomes free only to realize that the north doesn’t give you much freedom either. “There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends, in the midst of thousands of my own brotherin- children if a common father, and yet I dared not to unfold to anyone my sad condition.” For Douglass freedom and liberty were reached through many contributing factors, education being the main one, followed by rebellious spirit, access to the North, and the community of Blacks from the city, who could live lives away from the plantation. If this combination of elements wasn’t present, I highly doubt there would be any success. Freedom to a southern slave like Douglass meant standing up for your rights, and remaining revolutionary. The fact that Douglass fought back against his master and that he taught himself to read and write was very