Frederick Douglass: “It clouds the character of the Negro with a crime the most shocking that men can commit, and is fitted to drive from the…”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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.

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