Frederick Douglass: “But call this problem what you may or will, the all-important question is: How can it be solved?”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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