Frederick Douglass: “The chances are that not even an innocent Negro so charged would be allowed to escape.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.