Frederick Douglass: “The slaveholders there, like slaveholders elsewhere, preferred to see the slaves engaged in degrading sports, rather…”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.