Frederick Douglass: “The power of life and death held over labor which says you shall work for me on my own terms or starve, is a source of…”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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

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