Frederick Douglass: “I wish to speak advisedly, and in order to do this, I have waited till, I trust, experience has brought my opinions to…”

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

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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