Frederick Douglass: “For a time I regretted that I could not have shared the hardships and dangers endured by the earlier workers for the…”

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.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.