Frederick Douglass: “I owe it to my long-abused people, and especially to those already in the army, to expose their wrongs and plead their…”

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

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.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.