Frederick Douglass: “While the laborer holding the orders is tempted by their worthlessness, as a circulating medium, to get rid of them at…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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