Frederick Douglass: “At this moment, you are probably the guilty holder of at least three of my own dear sisters, and my only brother, in…”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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.

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