Frederick Douglass: “The Negro has often been the victim to this kind of low cunning.”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.