Frederick Douglass: “But I ask why should there be a negro problem any more than a problem for any other class of the American people?”

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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