Frederick Douglass: “Not to give a slave enough to eat, is regarded as the most aggravated development of meanness even among slaveholders.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.