Frederick Douglass: “And I have the happiness to know, that several of those who came to Sabbath school learned how to read; and that one, at…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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