Frederick Douglass: “Such beams seem all the brighter from the general darkness into which they penetrate, and the impression they make is…”

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.