It becomes easier to understand why many felt that slavery should remain in tact through Robert Higgs quote of Senator Stephen Douglas saying "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ... " This quote illustrates the fact that southern whites saw abolition as a threat to their way of life. ... The same famous president who coined the phrase "All men are created equal" still was unable to separate from his peers and stand up against slavery. .....

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Concerning this issue he declared I quote "In a little less than four years, therefore, after becoming a public lecturer, I was induced to write out the leading facts connected with my experience in slavery, giving the names of persons, places, and dates, thus putting it in the power of any who doubted, to ascertain the truth or falsehood of my story." ... For instance, as a boy, not yet ten years old, Douglass learned the importance of knowledge when he overheard Hugh Auld chastising his wife Sophia for teaching a slave to read I quote "a nigger should know nothing but to obey his master -...

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Examining both narratives reveals differences in the purpose of the narratives, the similar and contrasting experiences and reactions of the two captives, how religion played a role in both experiences and the elements of literature used in the two famous works. ... Either of the quotes could be used to persuade the reader to think of how unbearable the author's situation is, or how difficult it is to be on a slave ship during the voyage, and how fearful it would be to be held captive by Native Americans. ...

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Work hard and you can raise yourself to the level of the current whites, he says - although, as demonstrated by his famous fingers-and-fist "separate-but-equal" speech in Atlanta, he is unclear - in fact, is willfully evasive - about integration and, more specifically, about the individual. ... (p. 51, DuBois) Contrast this with Washington's statement, quoted earlier, that a disadvantaged black man is, in his view, at more of an advantage, as he is held to a lower standard already. ...

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