Frederick Douglass: “I loved them with a love stronger than any thing I have experienced since.”

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

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.

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.