Frederick Douglass: “But could I be heard by this great nation, I would call to mind the sublime and glorious truths with which, at its…”

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

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.

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.