Frederick Douglass: “Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of…”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.