Frederick Douglass: “I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.