Frederick Douglass: “Woodhouses, in-door pumps, sinks, drains, self-shutting gates, washing machines, pounding barrels, were all new things…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.