Back to the days at the 19th century, a great movement of civil rights was taking place. For the rights that all the creatures are equal, people fought and blood was involved. At this great time, some people decided to stand up to against the slavery for those who are not trodden fairly. Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott are typically who would like to go in front of people and represent their will. At the time of the 1800s, to speak for slavery is not as easy as now on. Without a firm belief, no one can make it along with tremendous pressure at that society. Though, as all great activists, they used slightly different ways to inspire people.
Harriet Jacobs used to a slave, or in another word, she was born as slaved. Thus she had been through everything but keeping a mind of liberty. The time she had been suffered urged her to tell the story of her to everyone who didn’t fully understand what is the situation. So she tried to talk to her audiences like they are all together in a table. The narrative she adopted was to get close to her readers. In her book, she had many times to directly address to readers. She wanted to grab audiences’ attention. Also, she was very subjective when she talked about someone. Compare to others, Harriet Jacobs would more occasionally apply her own judgment in her narrative. Hence, rather than writing a novel, she was more like telling a story of her. It makes her personal experience more attractive.
Frederick Douglass also, as an African-American, had suffered a lot. But he used a way more intense tension to address his anger. He complained the society. He was reminding people when you are having your rejoice there were people who are suffering from pain in somewhere else. It can not be ignored. He tried to deliver his voice. In Rochester New York, he awoke the audiences that Negro are supposed to have the same rejoice as well as white. So he shouts out and confronts people where are you when we are suffering. Every word he spelled was strong and powerful.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, as two female American activists in the movement of abolishing, spoke to female no matter you are black or white. They didn’t have to be emotional but simply listed the facts between men and women. It may not contain a lot of intense but as strong as Douglass. The speech that Stanton and Mott gave was a declaration of women’s right that they naturally supposed to have. It crystal cleared told their appeal.
Actually, no matter in what way they used. They all very well delivered one central idea that all lives matter. People are supposed to have what they deserved.