Frederick Douglass: “Jealous of their newly gained liberty, as well they might be, feeling themselves in peril and left naked to their…”

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.