Frederick Douglass: “Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

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.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.