Frederick Douglass: “But, with all my learning—it was really precious little—Sandy was more than a match for me.”

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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