Abolitionism In Fredrick Douglas's Criticism

Abolitionism emerged in United Stated through different figures and characters, one of them would be the highly influential speaker Frederick Douglass who in an open letter in 1852 refers to the 4th of July as the celebration of the United States biggest sin. He gives a reflection of the cruelty exercised over Black communities, and how people have been decided to leave behind or just ignored the pain. He calls “AMERICA SLAVERY” (9) as a protest for all the injustice that happens, and the fact that a nation is build over some people’s pain, without even consider for moment their right to live equally among the others. Although the great America is a religious land, people rather interpose their status or their economical interest instead of …show more content…
He calls to see the hideous and revolting nation, where people are being sell like animals or products, he calls to the ones who feel insulted by this intolerable situation to speak up, to lead a “revolution” where the nation can be erected on the equality of all and the freedom of everybody. Nevertheless slave holders would not give up to their “properties” so easy, they do need the slaves to keep their economy growing, they do actually believe they are doing the right thing, offering to an inferior race the possibility of improved, John C Calhoun insisted, in order to maintain the Union, the South should keep the slaves. Whites are a superior race and as he said: “ There never has yet exited a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point fact live on the labor of the