Frederick Douglass: “If the mob is in pursuit of Negroes who happen to be accused of crime, innocent or guilty, prison walls and iron bars…”

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

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.