Frederick Douglass: “The whole movement on the part of the States bears unmistakable evidence of having one origin, of emanating from one…”

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

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.