Frederick Douglass: “Into this contest I threw myself, with firmer faith and more ardent hope than ever before, and what I could do by pen or…”

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

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.

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.