Frederick Douglass: “But, the whole thing, as a feature of slavery, shocked me.”

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.