A representative could not be prouder of his election to a seat in the American Congress, than a slave on one of the out-farms would be of his election to do errands at the Great House Farm.
In his autobiography, Douglass uses a striking analogy to illustrate the intense desire among slaves to be chosen for errands at the main plantation.
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The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.
It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.