Frederick Douglass: “The very manner of their emancipation invited to the heads of the freedmen the bitterest hostility of race and class.”

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

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.