Frederick Douglass: “That great measure recommended by General Grant and adopted by the loyal nation, is now denounced as a blunder and a…”

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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.