Frederick Douglass: “He had the power to compel me to give him the fruits of my labor, and this power was his only right in the case.”

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.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.