Frederick Douglass: “Covey was the turning-point in my career as a slave.”

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.