Frederick Douglass: “The Negro can have nothing, can keep nothing, can sell nothing, without the consent of the landlord.”

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.