Frederick Douglass: “To understand the emotion which swelled my heart as I clasped this money, realizing that I had no master who could take…”

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

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