Frederick Douglass: “Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.