Frederick Douglass: “No slaveholding American shall ever my cross my door.”

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

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

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

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.