Frederick Douglass: “A house was hardly necessary in the summer time; I could hold my school under the shade of an old oak tree, as well as…”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

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

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