Frederick Douglass: “The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.