Frederick Douglass: “Every time the abolitionist speaks in honor of human liberty, he touches a chord in the heart of the anti-abolitionist…”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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.

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.