Frederick Douglass: “For all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst.”

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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.