Frederick Douglass: “It is also seen in the further fact that nowhere else on the globe, except in the United States, are colored people…”

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.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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