Similarities Between Frederick Douglass And W. E. B. Dubois

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s views about African-American freedom are different. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. Many years after constant abuse Douglass fought back to the “slaver-breaker” Mr. Convey. After losing a physical confrontation with Douglass, Mr. Convey never lash at him again. Douglass attempted to escape slavery twice before he succeeded. In Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, in 1845 he wrote "The circumstances leading to the change in Mr. Covey's course toward me form an epoch in my humble history. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man" (p. 50). Slavery involves of physical as well as psychological cruelty, and Douglass fought off the physical beating of Covey. Douglass proves that his determined will and desire to be free is more powerful than slavery. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery. Washington emancipated as a boy at the end of Civil War. Washington was determined to obtain an education. His mother bought him a spelling book from which he taught himself to read, and he eventually convinced his stepfather to permit him to go to school. During which Washington work in the coal mines, …show more content…
59). Frederick Douglas was extremely compassionate to the black communities; those still in slavery and those free. Douglass demonstrates his sympathy of community and mutual necessity in his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass. He relates his experiences and knowledges to teaching fellow slaves how to read as well as explaining how it was false that slaves did not experience meaningful bond of friendship with each other. He felt enthusiastically for those that are still enslaved. Douglass devoted his free years with passion trying to influence for