Frederick Douglass: “Now all the property of my old master, slaves included, was in the hands of strangers,—strangers who had had nothing to…”

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

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

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

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.