Frederick Douglass: “They had their own opinions, were independent, and called no man master.”

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.