Frederick Douglass: “They have grown intimate with vice and blood; they gloat over the wildest illustrations of their soul-damning and…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.