Frederick Douglass: “The practice of publishing every new invention by which a slave is known to have escaped from slavery, has neither…”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.