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In many ways, our founding father's idea of oppression differed greatly from Frederick Douglass' thought of oppression during his lifetime. Thomas Jefferson, a highly influential leader during our nation's birth, claimed that Great Britain, led by King George III, was infringing on the fundamental laws that colonists were entitled to. In many ways, Frederick Douglass uses fundamental laws to try and define his oppression by slave holders of the United States. In both cases, oppressed …

…individuals and specific classes. It's obvious Jefferson was from a different social standing than Douglass, but each were oppressed in their respective fashions by a force dictated outside of their control. These forces added to their thoughts on who and how it oppresses them. In conclusion, all of Jefferson's ideals in which he thought were oppressive were quite different than Douglass' ideas of oppression mainly because of their way of treatment by their tyrannical oppressors.