Frederick Douglass: “It has been a life-long, standing grief to me, that I knew so little of my mother; and that I was so early separated…”

The fact that we have endured wrongs and hardships, which would have destroyed any other race, and have increased in numbers and public consideration, ought to strengthen our faith in ourselves and our future.

A poverty-stricken class will be an ignorant and despised class, and no amount of sentiment can make it otherwise.

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…