Frederick Douglass: “When these false reasoners assert that the condition of the emancipated slave is wretched and deplorable, they partly…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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