Frederick Douglass: “Every slaveholder seeks to impress his slave with a belief in the boundlessness of slave territory, and of his own…”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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