Frederick Douglass: “The condition of a slave is simply that of the brute beast.”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.