Frederick Douglass: “So long as there was any hope whatsoever of the success of Rebellion, there was of course a corresponding fear that a…”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

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.