Frederick Douglass: “I was without home, without friends, without work, without money, and without any definite knowledge of which way to go…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.