Frederick Douglass: “The span of human life is too short for the repetition of events which occur at the distance of fifty years.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.