The Power of Perseverance
Frederick
Douglass was a man who lived through the brutality of slavery, yet, unlike
many, was able to retain the ability for coherent advocacy. Through his
capacity for intellect, love of learning, and his boundless faith, he triumphed
through the worst times and lived to tell his story of hardship and
perseverance. In writing his biography, My Bondage, My Freedom, Douglass
intended to persuade a large number of audiences that slavery should be
abolished, once stating that he was “not only at liberty, but abundantly
justified, in appealing to the whole world to aid in [slavery’s] removal”
(Douglass, 379).
