Frederick Douglass: “He ought to have been there, if only to show what American slavery and American freedom have done for him.”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.