Frederick Douglass: “A more atrocious and blood-thirsty string of laws could not well be conceived of.”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

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.