Frederick Douglass: “Thus twice, in one short day, I escaped death by the merest chance.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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