Frederick Douglass: “No,” thought I, “you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

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

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.