My Bondage And My Freedom By Fredrick Douglass

In these three selections about African Americans, each writer and its stories were portrayed in a meaningful and unlike events that happened during the time when colored people were treated miserable and horrible. Being connected to each story, Frederick Douglass’s experienced his life in an autobiography, Robert Hayden’s poem about Frederick Douglass’s making history towards African American History, and Quincy’s Poem about Africans not receiving land all connect to To begin with, Fredrick Douglass was a man born on February 1818, where he was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was a slave and was taking away from his mother at a very young age. When Douglass was a slave, he was taught how to read from his teacher in secret. Throughout his life he had difficulties fighting for slavery. He was one of them and he knew something had to be done. When he was set free, Douglass spoke the truth on how he felt and how his experiences changed his life. In 1855, Douglass wrote an autobiography called My Bondage and My Freedom where he expressed his life being taught and the feelings he was going through. This was mostly a first person point since he detailed everything he watched and felt.
Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1913. He was well known as an American poet, essayist, and educator. He wanted to be known as a poet he believed that racial labeling restricted African American poets. In this poem, it seemed that when Douglass was a former slave he was beaten, and treated very badly. The difference between this poem and the autobiography is that, Douglass mentions his experience when he was a slave and what he went through when wanting to learn and live a normal life like any white