Frederick Douglass: “It is not that I love Maryland less, but freedom more.”

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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.

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