Frederick Douglass: “He threw my thoughts into a channel from which they have never entirely diverged.”

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

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.