Frederick Douglass: “He has the numbers and the intelligence to control and direct.”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.