His article discusses Frederick Douglass's need to use the conscious of man to maneuver slavery as an institution into extinction. Wolfgang Mieder provides his reader with examples of the proverbial language Douglass used to sway the conscious of the slaveholders. He exclaims that while Douglass was often comforted by his belief that the sins of man would be paid for in death he hoped that while alive their guilt would sway them to see the wrong in their deeds upon their fellow man. According to Mieder, Douglass used many biblical proverbs to prove his point in his speeches. For Douglass though his desire to spread biblical proverbs stepped outside the atrocities of slavery ultimately he was fighting for human rights. Douglass was an early
