Frederick Douglass: “It was tenfold harder after living in Master Hugh’s family, where I had always had enough to eat, and of that which was…”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.