Frederick Douglass: “The one held me an abject slave—a prisoner for life, punished for some transgression in which I had no lot nor part; and…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.