Frederick Douglass: “I had known what it was to experience kind and even tender treatment; they had known nothing of the sort.”

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

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

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.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.