Frederick Douglass: “The shame and scandal of kidnapping will long remain wholly monopolized by the American congress.”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.