Frederick Douglass: “Weeks at Chicago, I hardly need say that such men are not to be depended upon for truth in any case where the rights of…”

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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.

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.