Frederick Douglass: “He rushes from the praying slaveholder into the paws of the bear.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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