Frederick Douglass: “Britain has now no slaves; we can therefore talk to the other nations now, as we could not have talked a dozen years…”

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.

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

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.