Frederick Douglass: “But, alas! what are all good and great qualities; what are human hopes and human happiness to the revengeful hand of an…”

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.