Frederick Douglass: “It is for this purpose, it seems to me, that this new charge, unthought of and unknown in the times to which I have…”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.