Frederick Douglass: “A slanderous charge against Negro morality has gone forth throughout the world and has been widely credited.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.

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