Frederick Douglass: “All the coolness, savage barbarity and freedom from moral restraint, which are necessary in the character of a…”

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

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 good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.