Frederick Douglass: “They began to put on airs, and talk about the “niggers” taking the country, saying we all ought to be killed; and, being…”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.