Frederick Douglass: “Only a moderate share of sagacity was needed to see that the arm of the slave was the best defense against the arm of…”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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