Frederick Douglass: “At present we have not that cultivation amongst us; and therefore, we value in the preacher, strong lungs, rather than…”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.