Frederick Douglass: “Slaveholders sought to impress their slaves with a belief in the boundlessness of slave territory, and of their own…”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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