Frederick Douglass: “I can therefore fondly and proudly ascribe to her, an earnest love of knowledge.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

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

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.