Frederick Douglass: “Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.