Frederick Douglass: “Besides the objection thus stated, it is manifest that the public and noisy advocacy of a general stampede of the…”

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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