Frederick Douglass: “Now, I hold, no less than his accusers, that the crime alleged against the Negro is the most revolting which men can…”

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.