Frederick Douglass: “Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought Which well might shame extremest hell?”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.