Frederick Douglass tried to evoke a desire for Liberation amongst the African-American people in his writings and oratory. To many people, Douglass appeared to be the black Moses, leading his people to “freedom” not only physically, but mentally and getting there by non-violent means. Douglass believed that if he could successfully show that blacks were in fact equal to whites, he thought that in turn everyone would recognize this and put an end to slavery. …showed first 75 words of 1027 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1027 total…and power he had attained through language and learning. Works Cited Page Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith In Jubilee. Louisiana State U. Press, Baton Rouge, 1989. Jacobs, Donald M. (ed) Courage and Conscience: Black and White abolitionists in Boston. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1993. Holland, Frederick May. Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator. Haskell House, New York, 1969. Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. UNC Press, Chapel Hill, 1997.