Frederick Douglass: “The lesson of this national experience is in place to-day, and it would be well for this nation to study and learn it.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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

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.