Frederick Douglass: “Men hold up their hands to Heaven, and swear they will do justice, but what are oaths against prejudice and against…”

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

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.