Frederick Douglass: “Such scenes are the everyday fruits of American slavery.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.