Frederick Douglass: “Yet, sir, your treatment of my beloved sisters is in all essential points precisely like the case I have now supposed.”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.