Frederick Douglass: “It did not entirely satisfy me to narrate wrongs; I felt like denouncing them.”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.