In childhood, he scarcely considered me inferior to himself certainly, as good as any other boy with whom he played; but the time had come when his friend must become his slave.
Reflecting on his childhood friendship with Thomas Auld, Jr., Douglass describes how the institution of slavery eventually corrupted their bond.
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Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.