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Frederick Douglass

“...it is nevertheless plain that a very different-looking class of people are springing up at the south, and are now held in slavery, from those originally brought to this country from Africa; and if their increase will do no other good, it will do away the force of the argument, that God cursed Ham, and therefore American slavery is right. If the lineal descendants of Ham are alone to be scripturally enslaved, it is certain that slavery at the south must soon become unscriptural; for thousands are ushered into the world, annually, who, like myself, owe their existence to white fathers, and those fathers most frequently their own masters.”

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
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