Frederick Douglass: “Their testimony in the case of any other people than the Negro would be instantly and utterly discredited, and why not…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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