Frederick Douglass: “When it prefixed “Negro” to the national problem, it knew that the device would awaken and increase a deep-seated…”

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.

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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