Frederick Douglass: “Slaveholders ever underrate the intelligence with which they have to grapple.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.