Frederick Douglass: “He came into possession of all his slaves by marriage; and of all men, adopted slaveholders are the worst.”

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

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.

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

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