Frederick Douglass: “The usual pretext for such crimes was that the slave had offered resistance.”

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.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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