Frederick Douglass: “To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems…”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.