Frederick Douglass: “There is in him that union of head and heart, which is indispensable to an enlightenment of the heads and a winning of…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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.

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

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