Frederick Douglass: “Perhaps a better idea could be formed of what has been done for Washington and for us by imagining what would be the…”

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

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.