Frederick Douglass: “Only think of it; one hundred miles straight north, and I am free!”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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.