country they call America. How can a man be equal if he is treated lower than the dung of a cow? If he has unalienable rights he should have had the right to be free. The white man took it upon himself to make the slave. He disobeyed the laws of his own Christianity. One of the Ten Commandments says to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Jefferson felt that it was a God given right for men to have equality. He had slaves so what does that say about his belief. The Constitution of the United States of America also declares rights for all me. Unfortunately, freedom, justice and equality were only meant for men like the Europeans. Just looking at the life of Fredrick Douglass demonstrates how freedom does not mean equality. Douglass became a free slave, but could never be accepted into the whit society as an equal. He became more educated and knowledgeable than many white men, but could never have the same opportunities as one looked upon society as a "pure citizen". What does this say about the morals of our American society? A man cannot have equality and justice because he has an ethnic difference. Frederick Douglass had a distorted vision of freedom in his early years because he was black. Knowledge was concealed from him. The white man wanted him to be naive and illiterate, because if he were knowledgeable he would become a threat to the industry of slavery that was built. Even after one hundred years every man still is not and will not be equal. The men that paved the way for equality as Jefferson and Hamilton did must have missed some of the cement. The ignorance and prejudice that existed still is embedded today. Although there may never come a time when we all will be fully equal, it is important to know that all men are created equal....
