Frederick Douglass: “The first work of slavery is to mar and deface those characteristics of its victims which distinguish men from things…”

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.