Frederick Douglass: “Slaves would sometimes fight with each other, and even die at each other’s hands, but there were very few who were not…”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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.

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