Frederick Douglass: “When at last the truth began to dawn upon the administration that the negro might be made useful to loyalty, as well as…”

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.