Frederick Douglass: “This last sentimental idea makes colonization very fascinating to the dreamers of both colours.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.

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

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.