Frederick Douglass: “I have never felt myself isolated since I entered the field to plead the cause of the slave, and demand equal rights for…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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