Frederick Douglass: “They know that if the votes of these parties have been guided by intelligence and patriotism, the same must be said of…”

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

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.

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