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American Self-Making and Self-Help - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Fredrick Douglass: He was an incredible influential African American man who was formerly a slave but bravely was able to escape slavery. He focused on American reform and wrote about his journey as a slave and how he is constantly trying to prove himself despite knowing that he truly owes no one an explanation to live. The sovereignty of his brutal honesty within the horrors of what he went through shows how he is using his hardships to power himself. "The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery.
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- - - - Carnegie and The High Class: Andrew Carnegie was a classic rags to riches story as he went from a bobbin boy in a textile to becoming America's Steel Monopoly owner. In this writing he glorifies the idea that the upper class had the duty to spend their money and not let it go to waste sitting with each person until they die. He thought if a person did this they were selfish as a person of lower class would kill to even have an ounce of that money. "Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust"