Frederick Douglass: “Let the white people of the North and South conquer their prejudices.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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