Frederick Douglass: “The expense and hardships, to say nothing of the cruelty attending such a measure, would make success impossible.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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