Frederick Douglass: “In my judgment no charge could be more unjust.”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.