How Did Frederick Douglass Violate Human Rights

During the nineteenth century Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was a very prominent anti-slavery and human rights leader. Frederick was a prominent abolitionist during the 1800’s and led anti-slavery acts, whenever he was a child he was abused by many slave owners and eventually once stood up for himself and won, eventually he escaped slavery and helped many more slaves escape as well. Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland on February 18, 1818 and was one of the few slaves who were actually taught how to read, when he was just a child one of his slave owners taught him how to read and write. One of Douglass’s most well know quotes was “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”(Frederick Douglass). But eventually they got …show more content…
But also Douglass wrote a few books about women’s rights and attended meeting about the conditions of women’s suffering and how it needs to be resolved. Douglass was surprised to see how women don't have the same voting rights as a black male. He argued the point and won but eventually got into an argument with women's rights activists. Douglass thought that “Without struggle there can be no progress”(Frederick …show more content…
Eventually after the war Lincoln declared a document named the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all of the slaves in the confederate territory. Douglass was also promoted through many political positions throughout the war about anti slavery and being a major figure on the topic of Human Rights Violations. Eventually slavery was removed from the entire United States due to it completely defying the thirteenth