Frederick Douglass: “If the slaves learnt to read, they would learn something else, and something worse.”

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.