In the Pre-Civil War era, America was disembodied over the issue of slavery from the North and South. Inventions such as the cotton gin and the steel plow boomed the need for slave labor in the South, so much that their population in that area increased from ⅓ to ½ from the 1840s to the 1860s. The call for freedom for all African Americans loomed with slave rebellions and the abolition movement. However, Southerners and its slave owners vowed to keep their slaves, needing a workforce to labor on their cash crop plantations, that made up the vast majority of their economics. Many abolitionists including David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnet, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, and Angelina Grimké Weld poured their hearts
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He traveled through New York and New England advocating for young, black men to become soldiers. Douglass traversed over tons of miles attending recruitment conventions, and as a result, positions bulked up with soldiers. His message was simple but potent: let blacks be called into service and form into a freedom-fighting force. He rallied all blacks and called them “Men of Color in Arms.” His efforts paid off when Congress passed an act validating the enlistment of blacks.“ By the end of the war, about 186,000 African American men had …show more content…
Frederick Douglass most important legacy was the use of his words to fight for the freedom and rights of African Americans [women and minority groups].” He used his own symbolism to, at every opportunity promote anti-slavery throughout his many newspapers and works that boldly described the issues of slavery.
His attributes to convey messages using writing and speaking elevated him up to emerge as one of the most illustrious people of the 1860s and receive the grand title of the “Father of Civil Rights.” Douglass, equipped with his extraordinary writing techniques, published 3 autobiographies; Narrative and Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He issued newspapers such as the North Star, Frederick Douglass’s Paper, and the Douglass Monthly to further more elaborate on his stance of the
He traveled through New York and New England advocating for young, black men to become soldiers. Douglass traversed over tons of miles attending recruitment conventions, and as a result, positions bulked up with soldiers. His message was simple but potent: let blacks be called into service and form into a freedom-fighting force. He rallied all blacks and called them “Men of Color in Arms.” His efforts paid off when Congress passed an act validating the enlistment of blacks.“ By the end of the war, about 186,000 African American men had …show more content…
Frederick Douglass most important legacy was the use of his words to fight for the freedom and rights of African Americans [women and minority groups].” He used his own symbolism to, at every opportunity promote anti-slavery throughout his many newspapers and works that boldly described the issues of slavery.
His attributes to convey messages using writing and speaking elevated him up to emerge as one of the most illustrious people of the 1860s and receive the grand title of the “Father of Civil Rights.” Douglass, equipped with his extraordinary writing techniques, published 3 autobiographies; Narrative and Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He issued newspapers such as the North Star, Frederick Douglass’s Paper, and the Douglass Monthly to further more elaborate on his stance of the