Frederick Douglass: “I was, for weeks, a poor, brokenhearted mourner, traveling through the darkness and misery of doubts and fears.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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.