Frederick Douglass: “The first of January, 1863, was a memorable day in the progress of American liberty and civilization.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.