Frederick Douglass Quotes

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
― Hourly History, Frederick Douglass: A Life from Beginning to End

“Added to that was the fact that every U.S. president elected to a second term between the first president, George Washington, and the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was a slaveholder.”
― Hourly History, Frederick Douglass: A Life from Beginning to End

“It is estimated that 12 million slaves were brought to the Americas between the colonial period and 1860, with the majority of those being used in the sugar industry since the mortality rate was far higher in the areas where sugar was grown as compared with the U.S.”
― Hourly History, Frederick Douglass: A Life from Beginning to End