Frederick Douglass: “It does this by holding up and pre-occupying the public mind with an issue entirely different from the real one in…”

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.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

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.