Frederick Douglass: “It was the first work, the reward of which was to be entirely my own.”

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

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.