Frederick Douglass: “I hope and trust all will come out right in the end, but the immediate future looks dark and troubled.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

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