Frederick Douglass: “She did not deem it impudent or unmannerly for a slave to look her in the face.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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