The idea of ​​Americanism as seen by Frederick Douglass comes in two variations. The first being the Americans whose fathers fought for the unalienable rights granted to every man, the Americans who love freedom, welcome with open arms refugees from all over the world, the purest Christians following the word of God. The second most truthful type of American in Douglass's eyes is one who stands idly by the accomplishments of those same fathers who fought tooth and nail against the British for freedom. When the opportunity to create massive change and liberation for slavery and women's rights, to defend these inalienable rights that are supposed to be extended to every man, the argument falls on deaf ears. The freedoms that Americans so joyfully claim are nothing more than a sham, hiding behind Christianity and following in the footsteps of their fathers who fought hard to achieve such freedoms. Frederick Douglass critiques what it means to be an American and argues that the freedoms promised in the Constitution should be extended beyond wealthy oppressors; the freedom to be oneself should be extended to all citizens of the United States. Now is the time for change while America is still young and developing. For Americanism to reflect the ideology in which many of its citizens blindly perceive it, Frederick argues that the government and its citizens must stop hiding behind their incoherent policies, their false Christianity, and not retreat from the place of change in order to bring truth to the words their founders fought so hard to put down on paper, providing equal freedom to all citizens. Slaves and women in the United States resented the vast inconsistencies that plagued the medium of paper. ....encourage the general public to consider their fellow human beings as inferior to what they really are, their equals. The institution of slavery blinded the clergy and churches of America, forcing them to stand idly by while injustice was done to the people of God, a God that all men share. Christianity has become a tool in which the separation between those who receive freedoms and those who do not becomes clearest. As Douglass says: “Even as they thank God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty…they remain entirely silent with regard to a law which deprives religion of its principal meaning and renders it utterly useless to a lying world. in wickedness. Christianity has become a tool of oppression for the elite; used to deny unalienable rights to their fellow human beings, the same rights their own fathers had fought so valiantly for at America's founding.