Frederick Douglass: “The colored traveler in Europe does not meet it, and we denounce it here as a disgrace to American civilization and…”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.