Frederick Douglass: “One of the invaluable compensations of the late Rebellion is the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true…”

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

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.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.