Frederick Douglass: “I have known slaveholders resort to cunning tricks, with a view of getting their slaves deplorably drunk.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.

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.