In the early years of this country our founders longed for the freedom and inalienable rights which were inherently theirs. These men fought and died so that they might have the opportunities they felt they were being denied. At this same time these same men were denying this freedom to an entire race of men, women, and children.

Among this race lived a man who, like his oppressors, refused to let that which was given to him by God be taken from him. This man was Frederick Douglass, a slave, an orator, an abolitionist author, but above all a human being. Douglass saw the destruction of his brothers and watched them let their spirit be broken and beaten by hypocrisy. Frederick Douglass began his Narrative as a broken man with nothing but hope that someday he may regain what belonged to him. He later uses his unbreakable spirit...