Frederick Douglass: “No one who has not himself been compelled to leave his home and country and go into permanent banishment, can well…”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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