Were I again to be reduced to the condition of a slave, next to that calamity, I should regard the fact of being the slave of a religious slaveholder, the greatest that could befall me.
From his autobiography, Douglass reflects on the particular cruelty of slaveholders who profess religion.
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Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.
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.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.