Frederick Douglass: “They constitute a separate fraternity at the south, not less marked than is the fraternity of Park Lane bullies in New…”

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.

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.