Frederick Douglass: “To those who have battled for liberty, brotherhood, and citizenship, I can say I too have battled; and to those who have…”

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

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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