Frederick Douglass: “High schools and colleges are excellent institutions, and will in due season be greatly subservient to our progress; but…”

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.