Frederick Douglass: “Why should a people who have made such progress in the course of a few years be humiliated and scandalized by exodus…”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

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.