Frederick Douglass: “In contemplating the likelihoods and possibilities of our circumstances, I probably suffered more than most of my…”

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

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

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

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