Frederick Douglass: “In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.”

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.