Frederick Douglass: “They could kill him, but they could not answer him.”

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.

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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