Edward Lloyd, himself; acting always up to the maxim, practically maintained by slaveholders, that it is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, without fault, than that the master or the overseer should seem to have been wrong in the presence of the slave.
From his autobiography, Douglass describes a cruel overseer and the underlying principle slaveholders used to maintain absolute authority.
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It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.
I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.
Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.