Frederick Douglass: “It laughs at legal processes, courts and juries, and its red-handed murderers range abroad unchecked and unchallenged by…”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.