Frederick Douglass: “Its great head for the present is President Pierce, whose boast it was, before his election, that his whole life had…”

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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