Frederick Douglass: “The office of overseer took this raw material of vulgarity and brutality, and stamped it as a distinct class in southern…”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.