Frederick Douglass: “By an act of the American congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and…”

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

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

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.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.