Frederick Douglass: “I regarded it as a sort of admission of my right to the whole.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.