Frederick Douglass: “I had received many good lessons from them, and was still receiving them, and the thought of leaving them was painful…”

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.

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.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.