Frederick Douglass: “Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a…”

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

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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