Frederick Douglass: “This devilish outrage, this fiendish murder, produced, as it was well calculated to do, a tremendous sensation.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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.