Frederick Douglass: “It was one of the damning characteristics of slavery, that it robbed its victims of every earthly incentive to a holy…”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.