“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery,” a quote by Frederick Douglass still resonates in today’s society. Frederick Douglass, originally born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland was an African American slave whose experiences led him to transform into a powerful social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and writer. His father was rumored a white man, however he was still forced to take his black mother’s slave title, and also suffer the inhumanity and malice that accompanied this role. His strong opposition towards slavery began to deepen once he began to learn how to read, something that was forbidden to slaves. In Frederick Douglass’ years black men, women,…