Frederick Douglass: “They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies…”

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.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.