Frederick Douglass: “Father Lawson’s solemn words, of what I ought to be, and might be, in the providence of God, had not fallen dead on my…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.