Frederick Douglass: “The revelation haunted me, stung me, and made me gloomy and miserable.”

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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