Frederick Douglass: “The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is…”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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