In terms of similarity, Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass both condemn …show more content…
Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Talbot County, Maryland. Therefore, he had the first-hand experience about slavery and all its utmost brutality and inhumanity. Especially when he was sold to Edward Covey, a poor farmer who constantly whipped him, he almost experienced a psychological breakdown. Howbeit, Martin Luther King was born into a free man. Although he did experience several humiliations and segregation from the white, still, compared to Douglass who experienced extreme physical violence, he was much more fortunate. Thus, this variation of the first-hand experiences in discrimination somehow determined their overall mindset towards the religion, the racial issues as well as other