Frederick Douglass: “Starvation made me glad to leave Thomas Auld’s, and the cruel lash made me dread to go to Covey’s.”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.