The very state from which the minister from our court to yours comes, is one of these states—Maryland, where men, women, and children are reared for the market, just as horses, sheep, and swine are raised for the market.
In his autobiography, Douglass exposes the dehumanizing practice of slave breeding in states like Maryland, comparing humans to livestock.
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The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.
Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.