Frederick Douglass: “A city newspaper, the Baltimore American, gave me the incendiary information denied me by the dictionary.”

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

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.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.