Frederick Douglass: “It was therefore an act of supreme trust on the part of a freeman of color thus to put in jeopardy his own liberty that…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.