Frederick Douglass: “It is, then, the first business of the enslaver of men to blunt, deaden, and destroy the central principle of human…”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

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.