Frederick Douglass: “It cannot be that I shall live and die a slave.”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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