Frederick Douglass: “I undertake to say that this orderly arrangement and periodicity of excuses are significant.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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