Frederick Douglass: “If it is attempted, by force or fraud to compel the colored people to stay there, they should by all means go--go…”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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.