Frederick Douglass: “I was human, and she, dear lady, knew and felt me to be so.”

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

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.