Frederick Douglass: “Happy woman must she be, that to her was given the power, in such unstinted measure, to touch and move the popular…”

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

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.