Frederick Douglass: “It requires the humanity of Christianity, the morality of the world to remove it.”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

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.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.