Frederick Douglass: “This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.

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

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.