Frederick Douglass: “My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to…”

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

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

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.