Frederick Douglass: “It was too late to look back, and now was the time to go forward.”

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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