Frederick Douglass: “Slaveholders may, sometimes, have confidence in the piety of some of their slaves; but the slaves seldom have confidence…”

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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.

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