Frederick Douglass: “There is more truth in the saying, that slavery is a greater evil to the master than to the slave, than many, who utter…”

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.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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