COVID-19 has also closed other people’s houses
07 Jun 2020
In 1826, Frederick Douglass, a young enslaved orphan, was shipped from a plantation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a home in Baltimore. Upon crossing the threshold of the new place, his conception of the world, and of himself, changed forever. “I had been treated as a pig on the plantation,” Douglass later wrote. “I was treated as a child now.” Along with this magical new sense of his own humanity, Douglass soon learned a skill that became the foundation of his life: reading.
