Frederick Douglass: “I know of such cases; and it is worthy of remark that such slaves invariably suffer greater hardships, and have more to…”

Notwithstanding the great and all-abounding darkness of our past, the clouds that still overhang us in the moral and social sky, the defects inherited from a bygone condition of servitude, it is the faith of my soul that this brighter and…

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

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.

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