Frederick Douglass: “Covey was a tyrant, and a cowardly one, withal.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

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

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.