Frederick Douglass

They are food for the cotton-field and the deadly sugar-mill.

What shall be done for the extirpation of slavery?

Here you will see men and women reared like swine for the market.

Behold the practical operation of this internal slave trade—the American slave trade sustained by American politics and American religion!

Mas’ Daniel could not associate with ignorance without sharing its shade; and he could not give his black playmates his company, without giving them his intelligence, as well.

It is, however, a notable fact, that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans, upon those engaged in the foreign slave trade, the men engaged in the slave trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business…

That party, sir, has determined upon a fixed, definite, and comprehensive policy toward the whole colored population of the United States.

I doubt if there be another nation on the globe having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book.

In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this fugitive slave law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical…

Are you a child with wants, tastes and pursuits common to children, not put on, but natural? then, were you black as ebony you would be welcome to the child of alabaster whiteness.

Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king hating, people-loving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their office under an open and palpable bribe, and are bound…

The minister of American justice is bound by the law to hear but one side, and that side is the side of the oppressor.