Frederick Douglass: “A master is one—to speak in the vocabulary of the southern states—who claims and exercises a right of property in the…”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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.