Frederick Douglass: “I never rise to speak before an American audience without something of the feeling that my failure or success will bring…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.