Similarities Between Frederick Douglass And Red Jacket

Over the last two weeks in class we were reading speeches from Hammond, Crevecoeur, and even Patrick Henry. However, the two speeches that really resonated with me and made me ponder the future were the speeches by Frederick Douglass and Red Jacket, Douglass being a former slave and an abolitionist and Red Jacket a Native American. Both of these men discuss the obstacles and struggles they face because of white oppression. I understand that modern people of color do not face the same kind of oppression that Douglass and Red Jacket faced when they were alive, but today’s colored people still experience their own struggles with oppression. Reading these speeches by these two men has really made me think about our future as people, as a society. Where will we be in the next 10 to 20 years? Will we have progressed? Will oppression have come to an end? For the future, all I can hope is that our society comes together, finally putting an end to all forms of oppression.
In Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? he speaks from the slave’s point of view of celebrating the fourth of …show more content…
Our society has come so far from where we first started we shouldn’t stop here. Douglass and Red Jacket didn’t speak up about oppression for no reason they wanted to see change. They made these speeches to be directed towards their audience, white people but now it’s a message to all of us. The message is to give everyone an equal opportunity at life, liberty, prosperity, and justice. These are inalienable rights that the Declaration Independence states everyone has once they are born. So why are we still in the position where one group of people have a better chance at like than others. For the future I hope to see the principles that the Declaration Independence state start to be held in everyday life instead of just on a piece of