Frederick Douglass: “But it would not have suited the man who left Washington with malice in his heart and falsehood in his throat to be more…”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.