Frederick Douglass: “I had to learn the value of my mother long after her death, and by witnessing the devotion of other mothers to their…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.