Frederick Douglass: “I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men.”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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.