Introduction Literary figures have often examined the secondary position of persons or writers having African heredity throughout their history in the United States. These kinds of social and racial discrimination have often forced a group of creative writers to form a literary movement that reveals protest. Frances Harper’s “An Appeal to My Country Women” and Robert Hayden’s “Frederic Douglass” are accepted as African American Protest poems that celebrate the ideologies of American liberty and universal brotherhood. Even though Frances Harper and Robert Hayden enjoy American liberty and accept the blessings of the nation, they would seek the real meaning and existence of various terms such as freedom, liberty, love, and equality in American society. Robert Hayden’s poem “Frederic Douglass” demonstrates the struggles and toils faced by the man Frederic Douglass having a black identity. Harper explains the torture and anguish of a countrywoman with the background of Armenian identity. Through the description of the sufferings of their characters both Harper and Hayden exposes their unending effort to keep the ethical identity of Blacks. Black identity and American liberty in Hayden’s “Frederic Douglass Robert Hayden’s “Frederic Douglass” explores the enlightening character of Frederic Douglass and poet tries to praise and predict the future eulogize of the man Frederic Douglass. At the very beginning of the poem one can notice the use of “this man” instead of using the full name. The word ‘man’ is used here as a common word having a generated meaning such as man and Negro. This man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro Beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world Where none is lonely, none hunted, alien, This man, superb in love and logic, This man shall be remembered… (Hayden 7, 8) These lines emphasize the actual value of the liberty, which was passionately longed for by the African-Americans. In general, this is the essence of the free and happy life, the basis of which is absence of violence, torturing and loneliness. People wish to love and to be loved, and they wish t apply “healthy” logic to the rules of their life, instead of slavery which has nothing in common with this logic. Poet remembers Douglass as a former slave, who run away from captivity and made an unending struggle against racial discrimination. The reader can easily find the figure of a man with profound knowledge and love. The phrase “ beaten to his knees ” underlines the severe torments faced by the Black people in America and Hayden declares the great survival of Black slaves. The poem reveals a serious thought that the United State’s relation with freedom has often been crammed with both color and disagreement. Generally, literary figures have often pictured the one side figure of freedom and liberty in their works but Hayden makes a comprehensive and structured approach in his poem. Actually, freedom is regarded in two aspects: real and fiction. Fiction is mentioned in the following lines: When it is finally won; when it is more Then the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians; (Hayden) This is just a matter of political propaganda, while slaves need to feel and breathe the actual freedom. Thus freedom is felt in every sight, in every beat of the heart, and those who know t