Frederick Douglass: “That threat is now being sternly pursued and may yet be fully realised.”

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

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.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.