Frederick Douglass: “I had jumped from a sinking ship into the sea; I had fled from the tiger to something worse.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.