Frederick Douglass: “By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a…”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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