Frederick Douglass: “God has interposed an insuperable obstacle to any such result.”

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.

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

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.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.