Frederick Douglass: “Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the…”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

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

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