Frederick Douglass: “The fact is, such was my dread of leaving the little cabin, that I wished to remain little forever, for I knew the…”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.