Frederick Douglass: “They were sent away empty-handed, without money, without friends, and without a foot of land to stand upon.”

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.