Frederick Douglass: “I acknowledge the benefit rendered me by the one, and by the other; believing, that but for my mistress, I might have…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.