Frederick Douglass: “They keep no family records, with marriages, births, and deaths.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.