“A white man’s freedom cannot be purchased by a black man’s freedom. “ Frederick Douglass was one of the most influential figures in the Abolitionist Movement. An abolitionist is those who favor to end slavery and think that slaves should be freed because it is the right thing to do. Before being one of the most popular speakers out there, when he was the son of a slave woman and a white man. He disobeyed the ban of reading and learned it from the white kids that went to school and his slaveholder's wife taught him the alphabet. He began to live with another owner and this one was much harsher. The owner, Edward Covey would abuse Douglass’s back to the point where it became permanent damage. When there was a physical confrontation and Douglass
