He stood up for them because he knew how they felt and because he was against slavery.
He encouraged others to escape from slavery, and also to stand up for themselves, because if they didn't then no one would stand up for them
Slavery.
This is a Frederick Douglass quote from My Bondage and My Free.
popular sovereignty allows for the people to choose where they stand on the subject and Frederick believed that the people would vote for no slavery
. "When I could stand no longer, I fell, and felt as if held down by an immense weight" (164). "looked like a man who had escaped a den of wild beasts, and barely escaped them" (165). "[H]e had used me like a brute for six months…" (169).
Frederick Douglass had many different beliefs one of his most famous ones were "i would unite with anyone to do right and nobody to do wrong" one of the things he meant as wrong is slavery which he believed was mortally wrong.
because she is a women
because she is a women
August Wilson has written: 'The piano lesson' -- subject(s): Drama, African Americans, Nineteen thirties, Brothers and sisters, Sharecroppers, African American families, Land tenure, Heirlooms, Afro-Americans, History 'Ma Rainey's black bottom' -- subject(s): African Americans, Blues musicians, Drama, Musicians, Nineteen twenties, Blues (Music), Racism 'The ground on which I stand' -- subject(s): History, History and criticism, American drama, African Americans in literature, African American theater, Theater and society, African American authors, Intellectual life, African Americans 'The Piano Lesson' 'Fences' -- subject(s): Drama, African Americans, History 'Radio golf' -- subject(s): African American neighborhoods, African Americans, Drama, Nineteen nineties, Real estate development 'Seven guitars' -- subject(s): African Americans, Blues musicians, Drama, History 'Cultivating the Ground on Which We Stand'
The 14th ammendment ensured equil protection under the law and citizenship for African Americans.
African America is located wherever there are large concentrations of African Americans (Black People) such as your local KFC, watermelon stand, or wherever Grape Kool-Aid is sold.
In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, the African Americans in the courthouse balcony stand up as a sign of respect for Atticus Finch, who had just finished defending Tom Robinson in court. Even though the white audience members do not acknowledge this gesture, it symbolizes the African American community's admiration for Atticus's courage and integrity.