Frederick Douglass: “Within that circumference, there resides a people which have no superiors in point of enlightenment, liberality, and…”

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.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.