Frederick Douglass: “I said at the time that no better words for the colored citizen had dropped from the east portico of the Capitol since…”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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