Frederick Douglass: “But thus far, the government had not kept its promise, or the promise made for it.”

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.