Frederick Douglass: “Our confidence in each other was unshaken; and we were quite resolved to succeed or fail together—as much after the…”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.