Frederick Douglass: “He asked, “Are ye a slave for life?” I told him that I was.”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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.

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.