Frederick Douglass: “This, to me, was knowledge; but it was a kind of knowledge which filled me with a burning hatred of slavery, increased…”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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