Douglass was sold to Baltimore and unable to go to school, so he taught himself how to read and write. At 20, Douglass escaped slavery, and on September 3rd, 1838, he fled to New York City and declared himself a free man. In 1845, Douglass published his first of three antislavery autobiographies, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in order to quell doubts that he was not truly a fugitive slave. Douglass moved to Rochester, NY, where he continued his to push his abolitionist agenda. He allowed his house to be a station on the Underground Railroad, and published his second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, in 1855. During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass continued to push his message of equality. He recruited African Americans, including two of his sons, to fight on the side of the Union, and he even personally went to meet with President Lincoln to advocate for African American troops who felt unequal amongst the corps. One particular quote from My Bondage and My Freedom summarizes one of the main arguments of the abolitionist movement as a whole. It states, “Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self-defense, the white assaulting party is fully…