Frederick Douglass: “I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me; but one thing I knew very well—I was…”

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

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

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.