Frederick Douglass: “The righteous judgment of mankind will say if the American people could endure the Negro’s presence while a slave, they…”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.