Frederick Douglass Quotes
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
Like many Black players of the era, Flood suffered endless hateful epithets and curses from a white crowd, many of whom resented the fact that Blacks were integrating baseball, but resented them even more when their performance exceeded that of a favorite white player.
Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. Accordingly, he was described by abolitionists in his time as a living counterexample to slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity to function as independent American citizens. Likewise, Northerners at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had once been a slave.
