Sometimes You Have to Fight For What You Want

Fredrick Douglas and Booker T. Washington were two very different, but very similar people. These two black men were both at one point slaves, they both wanted an education, and they were both freed. In the book up from slavery the black slave booker Washington was freed at a young age by the emancipation proclamation at the end of the slave era. In the book the narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass Fredrick was freed by running away from his master long before the time all slaves were declared free.

Both of the black men were slaves at a point in their lives. Fredrick had it the worst of all, he was beaten, his family were beaten, other slaves were beaten too! One slave was beaten so bad that he ran into the river to cool the lashes dealt by his evil master only to be shot for further disobeying. Booker however, was a young child when he was a slave, and because of this he was not beaten like Fredrick and his kin. Booker also had a kinder master who would supply the slaves with thing like blankets and even molasses! …show more content…
Booker, once he was freed at a young age, was in hot pursuit of a more educated life with little money. Fredrick however, was still a slave at the point in his life where he wanted to learn. Fredrick, being so eager for the knowledge to read and write, would challenge other boys to writing contests just to lose and see what he could learn from what they wrote in the dirt.

Fredrick and Booker were both at one point in time, freed from their captivity. Fredrick was a daring one and tried to run away to claim his freedom as a new man. He even succeeded! Booker had his freedom given to him on a silver platter of justice, which was the emancipation proclamation.

The two black slaves, similar yet very different, had to go through many hard things. though Fredrick had it the worst, they both had to fight for what they