Frederick Douglass: “Better still, they want the United States Government to vote the money to send them there.”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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