Frederick Douglass: “These were formidable consequences, certainly, and it is not strange that the Christian slaveholders of that day viewed…”

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.

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.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.