Frederick Douglass: “They are far too scantily provided for, and are worked too steadily, to be much concerned for the quality of their food.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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.

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.