Frederick Douglass' Life

“Believing that one of the best means of emancipating the slaves of the south is to improve and elevate the character of the free colored people of the north I shall labor in the future, as I have labored in the past, to promote the moral, social, religious, and intellectual elevation of the free colored people; never forgetting my own humble origin, nor refusing, while Heaven lends me ability, to use my voice, my pen, …

…treatment commonly extended to colored people in the United States.” If you get white people out of the reach of the public eye, and the harshness in which it rules that people don’t view the world the same. From that moment on Douglass’ ideas of how to better the lives of the black people of the country is illustrated in the first quote of this paper, to elevate the understanding between whites and blacks.