Frederick Douglass: “I won’t!” said Henry, in a firm tone, indicating his readiness to meet the consequences of his refusal.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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