Frederick Douglass: “His fame as an overseer went abroad, and his horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial investigation.”

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.