Frederick Douglass: “Slaveholders might sometimes have confidence in the piety of some of their slaves, but the slaves seldom had confidence…”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.