Frederick Douglass: “The reader will easily see that I had something more than the simple fact of being free to think of, in this extremity.”

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

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.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.