Frederick Douglass: “I therefore set about finding out, if possible, who and what the abolitionists were, and why they were so obnoxious to…”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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