Frederick Douglass: “The mind grows dizzy in contemplation of the future of a country so great and so increasing in greatness, and to whose…”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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

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