Frederick Douglass: “No effort of mine or of his could silence this trouble-giving thought, or change my purpose to run away.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.