Frederick Douglass: “It is that this so-called but mis-called Negro problem is one of the most important and urgent subjects that can now…”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.