Frederick Douglass: “Happy woman must she be, that to her was given the power, in such unstinted measure, to touch and move the popular…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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