Frederick Douglass: “It was in my estimation an immense gain to have the war for the Union committed to the extinction of Slavery, even from…”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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.