Frederick Douglass: “A white man holding no slaves in the country from which I came, was usually an ignorant and poverty-stricken man.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

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.