Frederick Douglass: “Has any one of our Republican Presidents, since Grant, earnestly endeavored to establish justice in the South?”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.