… John (et al, eds.). The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One–Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. New Haven: Yale … her, and they made it penal for the slave to be taught his letters or for him to resist the oppression of the white man. … a loaded whip, and being caught in the arms of a man, fell dead. Mr. Douglass had also been put in a slave gaol, sold, …