Frederick Douglass: “I was fast approaching manhood, and year after year had passed, and I was still a slave.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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