Compare And Contrast Wright And Frederick Douglass

Many experiences were different for blacks during slavery than blacks in the Jim Crow south, but the one thing ties them all together is their curiosity that led them to their passion to improve themselves by reading and writing. From slavery to Jim Crow Laws, white southerners feared that the education of blacks would give them the power to resist and threaten the whites’ authority. Although Richard Wright in the story, Black Boy and Frederick Douglass ,in the story Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass grew up in very different time periods and have very different personalities, they do have one thing in common; their passion to learn how to read and write. Wright is a naive, young, free spirited boy that wants to understand the world around him. Douglass is a down-to-earth, rational, smart boy who wants to learn how to read and write, in hopes that it will help him escape to the north. Despite their differences Wright and Douglas had one goal in mind, to overcome the barriers and learn to read and write.
Frederick Douglass was born a slave with a father of a
While in New Bedford, Douglass raises enough money to subscribe to a local newspaper, the Liberator, where he learned about slavery and the policies in place. After reading and learning all he could, Douglass attended an anti-slavery conference and was inspired to speak and tell his story. Without learning how to read, Douglass would not be the famous abolitionist that he is today and would not have been able to tell his story to the world. Frederick Douglass knew that the only path to freedom was knowledge and education. Once he learned to read and write he had all the possibilities in his hands. If he would have let the obstacles get in his way of learning to read and write, he would not have successfully escaped from slavery and created a life for