Frederick Douglass: “They have young men among them noble and true, who are educated and intelligent--fit to engage in enterprise of “pith…”

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

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.