Frederick Douglass: “He possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power.”

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

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.