Frederick Douglass: “He possessed the great advantage so valuable to a Parliamentary debater, of being able to make all interruptions serve…”

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.