Was Frederick Douglass Writings Influential?

Born into slavery Frederick Baily will be one of the most influential Abolitionists in both the past and future time with his writing.  Known to everybody as Frederick Douglass he was considered a leader too many slaves during his era. During this time slaves were not able to read and write, but Douglass was one of the few who did.  Becoming a leader to some of the slaves his master William Freeland was able to let him, “secretly organized a Sunday school, where he taught other slaves to read.”http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/frederick_douglass.html  This experience to Douglass was one of the best contributions to slavery at this time.  

Reading and writing was something that Frederick Douglass loved to do and that is what made his autobiographies and speeches interesting to read and listen too. Since he was able to do both reading and writing he was able to express the needs that could clarify different assumptions about who he was.  In one of his autobiography Narrative of the Life of an American Slave he was able to express different events that happen on the plantations where he was living in numerous occasions. Douglass in his writing was able to illustrate events that happen for example; “I would crawl into this bag, and there sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head in and feet out.”http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/f-douglas/Narrative-Douglass.pdf It just shows that he is very thoughtful when he writes so that he is able to draw you the picture in his head.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery but was able to get out of his slavery and be an educated man to teach and tell his story. Not only has his writing and reading helped him, but it has also touched people in many ways. In this cliphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYrCDCVMgU from his famous speech "What to the Slave is your Fourth of July?” he is expressing his feeling why he has been called to speak on independence.  Not only does this give insight it again shows that his writing is influential of all different races, colors and creeds.