Frederick Douglass: “The crime of teaching a slave to read is punishable with severe fines and imprisonment, and, in some instances, with…”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.