Frederick Douglass: “I was afraid that these seemingly good men might use me so; but I nevertheless remembered their advice, and from that…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.