Frederick Douglass: “He seemed to think himself equal to deceiving the Almighty.”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.