Frederick Douglass: “But for it there is no foundation whatever, in a country like the South, where public opinion, the laws, the courts, the…”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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.

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.