Frederick Douglass: “What in the tone of southern sentiment had been fierce before became furious and uncontrollable now.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.