Frederick Douglass: “Yes, the pulpit there stands up as the great defender of this cursed institution, as it is called.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

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