Frederick Douglass: “A country, redeemed and regenerated from the foulest crime against human nature that ever saw the sun!”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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