Frederick Douglass: “There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”

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.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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