Frederick Douglass: “By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a…”

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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