Frederick Douglass: “They were mere hucksters of the slave produce of Maryland and Virginia--coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose…”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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