Booker T. Washington

Frederick Douglass believed that the blacks should not go north because then it is just ignoring the problem in the south. He felt that it would be better off to stay in the south and actually try to change things and make your self more respected than it is running away and going to the north. The North had a lot to offer but it wasn’t incredible but he strongly felt the true way to get rid of slavery and to work on the problem was not to run away from it. Booker T. Washington touched on some of the ideas Frederick Douglass made. He never spoke negatively about the north or even talked about the north but he felt that it was much better to keep the blacks in the south and form better relationships between the whites and blacks. He used the term, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” He was saying that the blacks and whites should cast down their buckets and learn more about each other and give more respect and help to each other. He thinks that this is what should happen to help rid of slavery and that the start really needs to be forming better relationships. It would be much better to work in the south and form the bonds than just run away. He was telling the whites to look and see how hard working and how well the blacks were doing for them and for the blacks to show more trust and to open the doors to the whites. Both groups needed to put down their buckets and form relationships right where they were at so that slavery could be fixed.