Frederick Douglass: “He had not been taught that treason and perjury were the proof of honor and honesty.”

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.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.