Frederick Douglass: “The fact that all other nations were there at their best, made the Negro’s exclusion the more pronounced and the more…”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.