It has revealed the arrogant and overbearing spirit of the slave states toward the free states; despising their principles—shocking their feelings of humanity, not only by bringing before them the abominations of slavery, but by attempting to make them parties to the crime.
Douglass describes how the Fugitive Slave Act revealed the slave states' contempt for free state principles and attempted to implicate them in the institution of slavery.
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The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.
I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.