Frederick Douglass: “Hence the freedman, less from humanity than cupidity, less from choice than necessity, was speedily called back to labor…”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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.