Frederick Douglass: “There was no reason why I should be the thrall of any man.”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

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