Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to…”

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.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.