Frederick Douglass: “But to the colored man accused of crime in the Southern States, a different rule is almost everywhere applied.”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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.