Frederick Douglass: “Were slaveholders to listen to complaints of this sort against the overseers, the luxury of owning large numbers of…”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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