Frederick Douglass: “I soon found that New York was not quite so free or so safe a refuge as I had supposed, and a sense of loneliness and…”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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.