Frederick Douglass: “The charge is often made that negroes are by nature the criminal class of America; that they furnish a larger proportion…”

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

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.