Frederick Douglass: “A man’s head will not long remain wrong, when his heart is right.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.