Frederick Douglass: “But, happily, such men do not represent the sentiments of the colored people, but greatly and flagrantly misrepresent…”

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.