Frederick Douglass: “Failing to command their respect, both himself and wife were ever on the alert lest some indignity should be offered him…”

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.

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.