Frederick Douglass: “I loved them with a love stronger than any thing I have experienced since.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.