A Comparison Of Booker T Washington And Frederick Douglass

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The comparison on Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass's views on slavery and prejudice are quite similar. They both were black slaves who hoped for a better future for blacks that did not include slavery. They both detested slavery and the prejudice of the whites and believed that everyone was equal. Booker T. Washington's book Up From Slavery is an excellent view of what he went through as a slave and how he views slavery and prejudice. Frederick Douglass also wrote a book "The Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass" which is also a great example of what slaves had to go through every day, confined to slavery. Booker didn't approve of the idea of slavery because he believed that everyone was equal. In the 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech which Booker T. Washington delivered, he told the President and gentlemen of the board of directors and citizens that "[they could] be sure in the future, as in the past, that [they] and [their] families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful, law-abiding, and unresentful people that the world has seen." He believed that if America gave freedom to the slaves, that if the blacks and whites could work together and "cast down [their] bucket among [his] people, helping and encouraging them as…show more content…
Washington and Frederick Douglass both believed that slavery was detestable. They also creed that the prejudice of the Americans was unacceptable and that the blacks deserved more credit than what they recieved. Booker and Frederick believed that all humans are equal and that if the whites and blacks worked together, America would benefit more from the unity than from slavery. Although Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington's view of slavery and prejudice are similar, their view of forgivness were not quite the same. Booker forgave the whites for their enslaving blacks and prejudice, but Frederick hated this act of immoral behaviour and did not quite forgive the
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