Frederick Douglass: “In spite of all your religion and laws he is a rejected man.”

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

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.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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