Frederick Douglass: “A scream for vengeance came up from all sections of the slave States and from great multitudes in the North.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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.

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.