Frederick Douglass: “Hamilton had his faults, but starving his slaves was not among them.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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.