Frederick Douglass: “It is not uncommon to charge slaves with great treachery toward each other, and to believe them incapable of confiding…”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.