Frederick Douglass: “Distance does not diminish or alienate, contiguity does not increase any man’s right on this soil.”

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

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.