Frederick Douglass: “I was living among free men; and was, in all respects, equal to them by nature and by attainments.”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.