Frederick Douglass: “That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.”

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.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.