Frederick Douglass: “They need, and ought to have, the material aid of both white and colored people of the free states.”

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

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

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.