Frederick Douglass: “He may be a freeman; and yet his child may be a chattel.”

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.

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.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.