Frederick Douglass: “I have found in my experience that the way to break down an unreasonable custom, is to contradict it in practice.”

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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