Frederick Douglass: “Thanks for this one beam of hope in the future.”

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

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.

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