Frederick Douglass: “I saw Jim ironed, in the cart, to be carried to Easton for sale—pinioned like a yearling for the slaughter.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.