Frederick Douglass: “Not a breeze comes to us from the late rebellious states that is not tainted and freighted with Negro blood.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.