Overcoming Obstacles In Frederick Douglas's Life

It was once said that with great power comes great responsibility. It gives one great power to overcome great obstacles. Frederick Douglass adulthood was full of these great accomplishments because he thrived on his intellect, but it wasn't without hardcore struggles as a slave that fueled his passion to accomplish. The purpose of this essay is to directly pull events in Frederick Douglass' youth and times in slavery to his political ideologies, because we ultimately know that overcoming obstacles builds character. Douglass' political standpoints are formed on the ideological bases of legalism, moralism, and also accommodation. So to fully understand his beliefs, we must look at his traumatic enslaved childhood.
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No longer bound to his master's world, he started to gain his own opinions on issues and became much more independent. Despite the success of African Americans to develop a subculture, which gave them an escape from their hardcore reality, pain and they struggle that they went through. McCartney states that the legalist strains in Douglass' thought stem from his almost divine belief in the American creed and its promise. I think that as it pertains to Douglass' story, with the many struggles he endured with Covey. Covey of course is the slave breaker that the Auld's sent Douglass to when they felt that he was too unruly of a slave and after many troubles with Covey Douglass had begun to feel broken. This feeling would continue until Frederick Douglass physically fought with Covey one year after he was sent to him as his new master. I feel that this uprising is synonymous with Douglass' ideology of legalism. I also think that Douglass gained a lot of his legalist influence from the East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society which was a free blacks association where he learned to debate. It was after that when he went back to Hugh Auld and used his negotiation skills to make an arrangement with Hugh Auld, to hire-out of