Frederick Douglass: “The great trouble with the Negro in the South is that all presumptions are against him.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.