“Right is of no Sex — Truth is of no Color”
4 min readFeb 15, 2017
Growing up, Frederick Douglass endured repeated beatings for learning to read and write, and for teaching fellow slaves. As an adult—following a failed escape attempt— his owner sent him to toil in the Baltimore shipyards. After two years, Douglass disguised himself as a sailor, borrowed papers from a free black man, and took a train north.
