Frederick Douglass: “But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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