Frederick Douglass: “A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnanimity.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.