Frederick Douglas

 Frederick Douglas

"I expose slavery... because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death."

Frederick Douglas was an abolitionist and African American who left the South to be free. Douglas then decided to speak in favor of repealing slavery in the North. Douglas fought against slavery in the 1800s. Douglas wrote extensively being self-educated.

Douglas had his own publication called the Almanac and also wrote for an anti-slavery newspaper. Douglas was important in the abolitionist movement indicating that self-education is needed to improve oneself. 

The racist slavery system in the 1800s did not want individuals to improve their circumstances and attempted to keep African Americans illiterate so that they would not improve. Douglas saw the importance of education throughout his life and improved. He learned to read and write and would be important in the fight against slavery.

Douglas had two publications going on at once. Douglas had his own publication and contributed to a newspaper in the North calling for freedom from slavery. Douglas describes that learning to read and write is needed in order to improve and fight against racism and caste systems. We can help others by speaking truth and allowing them to understand that self-education is empowerment and corruption must be exposed. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an African American abolitionist that wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. She wrote a fictional story of the real mistreatment of African Americans by racist idolators. Stowe was able to efficiently describe how racism and slavery are incompatible with civilization and genuine empathy. Stowe's book in the 1850s was a bestseller and galvanized individuals to support the abolitionist movement against slavery.

Stowe was probably hated by racist idolators who did not want slavery to be abolished. This was because they would have to actually work. Stowe described how slavery was unneccesary in the 1850s. Because she decided to write about the need to abolish slavery, individuals began to see the need to fight against racism. Stowe's book was so important to the abolitionist movement that in the 1860's the Civil War occurred.

Abraham Lincoln noticed that Stowe had been important in allowing individuals to see how racism and slavery were outdated in the 1860s. Lincoln acknowledged that Stowe was important in the struggle against racism and slavery. Lincoln invited Stowe to the White House during the Civil War in 1862 and told her, 'So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.' Stowe also with other abolitionists including Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington fought for the rights of education and autonomy for African Americans. 

Stowe was able to accomplish much by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin and fighting against slavery. Stowe was able to speak truth concerning the manner that slavery was not a necessary evil and instead needed to be eliminated. Her writings helped bring down slavery in the United States. It would take another 100 years since Abraham Lincoln to end racism in the United States through the Civil Rights Movement with JFK and MLK, yet we are able to acknowledge that idol worship is the source of racism and caste systems in the world. Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and MLK were Christian and anti-idolatry/socialism. (The Civil Rights Movement was also impressive and had nothing to do with marxism.)