Frederick Douglass: “Auld evidently regarded me simply as a child, like any other child; she had not come to regard me as property.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.