Frederick Douglass: “They do not emigrate from the free North, where labor is respected, to a lately enslaved South, where labor has been…”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.