Frederick Douglass: “Blinded by its own fury, it is moved by impulses utterly unfavourable to a clear perception of facts and the ability to…”

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.