Frederick Douglass: “While slavery exists, and the union of these states endures, every American citizen must bear the chagrin of hearing his…”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.