Frederick Douglass: “Can you be quite sure that the oppressed laborers in this country, white and colored, will not some day make common…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.