Frederick_Douglass_and_Harriet_Beacher_Stowe

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beacher Stowe Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beacher Stowe who dually challenged the legitimacy of slavery in their literature. Both have earned their place as an essential and effective component to the abolition movement though differing in mannerism, aim, strategy, and audience. Frederick Douglass offers a calm, concise, yet compelling account of his experience as a slave. Perhaps this is because he targets a primarily educated audience from the North. His logic might reason that abolition propaganda will not be supported in the South and only intellects, the voting population, have the capacity to produce change. Also, it is evident that Douglass has a bias against slavery, but that does effect his prose the least bit. When he detects it he offers a convincing explanation. But first and foremost, in order to obtain his audience’s sympathies and support, he must prove himself a man worthy of being listened to. This means Douglass must show he knows more, has slaves, douglass, stowe, because, slave, slavery, tom, white, though, role, owners, eliza, religious, religion, human, family, both, women, master, man, kind, george, personal, must, mother, eva, different, despite, death, christian, characters, yet, whites, way, values, southern, physical, north, need, mr, made, life, legree, lack, eva’s, effective, education, each, cassy, break