Frederick Douglass: “White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to…”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.