Frederick Douglass: “His eyes had in them the tenderness of motherhood, and his mouth and other features the highest perfection of a genuine…”

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.

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.