Frederick Douglass: “It implies a radical change wholly inconsistent with the well-known facts of human nature.”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.