Frederick Douglass: “I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me.”

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.