Douglass, Man of Principles

[Summerlander]

Here I express Frederick Douglass's sentiment. He brought a sigh to the oppressed. Emancipation in the New World took its first steps with him ...

How dare he say that the singing voices of the slaves evidence their contentment? On the contrary; their music is an outlet for sadness and frustration and nobody in political Washington D.C. understood them better than Frederick Douglass, the literate black man who became the first African American nominated for Vice President of the United States as the running mate and Vice Presidential nominee of Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ticket.

Douglass also believed in the liberal values of the American Constitution. When radical abolitionists, under the motto 'No Union With Slaveholders', criticised the man's willingness to have discussions with slave owners, he famously replied: 'I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.' And indeed he showed it! He was an anti-slavery campaigner after the Civil War, an autobiographer and a supporter of women's suffrage. Undeniably, Douglass played a massive role in social reform.

1818-1895
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey