Frederick Douglass: “When some of us at the North questioned the ethics of this conclusion, we were told to mind our business, and our…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

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