Frederick Douglass: “I had to learn the value of my mother long after her death, and by witnessing the devotion of other mothers to their…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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.

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.