“Here opened for me a new life—a life for which I had had no preparation. Mr. Collins used to say when introducing me to an audience, I was a “graduate from the peculiar institution, with my diploma written on my back.””
From Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
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