Frederick Douglass: “At the outset, I challenge the credibility of the mob, and as the mob is the main witness in the case against the Negro…”

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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