Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have a few comparisons. They were both born into slavery and they both escaped and headed north, they were also both african-american, they also were both suffragist. Both had a message, and ultimately Truth and Douglass fashioned an identity using written text, and oral presentation. Through their efforts, they became American icons and symbols for the abolitionist crusade against slavery. Citizens who read Douglass’s slave narrative or listened to Truth speak were thereby engaged with an image that brought into question their historical and contemporary ideas about slaves.
