Frederick Douglass: “Citizenship evidently includes all the rights of citizens, whether State or national.”

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 father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.