Frederick Douglass: “He is a desperate slaveholder who will shock the humanity of his non-slaveholding neighbors, by the cries of the…”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.