Frederick Douglass: “The negro to-day would not be on his knees, as he is, abjectly supplicating the old master class to give him leave to…”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.