Frederick Douglass: “They know, or they ought to know that it would take more money than the cost of the late war, to transport even one half…”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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.