Frederick Douglass: “It is another illustration of how any advance in pursuance of a right principle, prepares and makes easy the way to…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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