Frederick Douglass: “If he comes in ignorance, rags, and wretchedness, he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that…”

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

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.