Frederick Douglass: “They constitute a separate fraternity at the south, not less marked than is the fraternity of Park Lane bullies in New…”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.