Frederick Douglass: “It was a new and strange sight to me, brightening up my pathway with the light of happiness.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.