The Like Minds of Emerson and Douglass

American Renaissance writers Emerson and Douglas give little influence to their contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson. He insists that the United States left its mark in the literary world with its own, real American literature and started this movement at his own work (Bode 574). When Emerson began his career, Frederick Douglas was a South American slave. Eventually, Douglas became an Emerson colleague or lecturer.

Autobiography of Frederick Douglas is not written intentionally in the influence of Emerson, it is clear evidence of independence philosophy. Douglas is quite different from Emerson's life, was born as a slave and witnessed the slave's deprivation by slaves. The slaves will be whipped, beaten, and sometimes shot. After witnessing his aunt being beaten as a boy, Douglas noticed that everyone has a common humanity like Whitman. This is more democratic than Emerson's more personal view, and I believe that everyone is equal. Douglas is determined to devote his life to the release of all slaves. This is also consistent with life after Emerson. Douglas learned to read and write by being friends with other boyfriend in the neighborhood. He considers this to be a necessary condition for universal truth, expression of his genius and reliability to others.

It is one of the main principles of Emerson's job to believe that you go to Emerson, be independent and walk in a personal way. "People should not learn to discover and observe the light that shines through their heart from the inside, not just the bard and the saint's light" (Emerson 1334). The first "light of light" of Frederick Douglas appeared in the song that the slave sang on his way to the host. He explained songs sung in a deep voice of a painful soul as a prayer to save slavery. Douglas said: "For those first songs that follow slavery's inhumanization" (Douglas 1754). Plant seeds and grasp his soul. He continues to hear the clues of trust and trust