Frederick Douglass: “He threw my thoughts into a channel from which they have never entirely diverged.”

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.